Covering the House in Christmas

Dearest Christmas. We love you so much. 

Early in November when we got a few inches of snow (which turned out to be the most we got for the entire holiday season) we started hankering for Christmas. It was just so festive. All of us started slipping Christmas songs into the daily playlists and getting excited to watch holiday movies. Well, Emma didn't - she was very loyal to Thanksgiving and refused to enjoy anything Christmassy at all before December 1st. We didn't care about her feelings and played it anyway.

Although Thanksgiving was a delight, it was also a way of throwing open the doors to all the music all the time and all the movies all the time and all the stuff all the time. We got our decorations up in a flash. We spent an evening making our gingerbread houses and learned a few lessons about maybe not buying pre-made frosting next time due to the fact that it slides slowly down the face of gingerbread with little to no gluing power. But the houses still made a festive scene on top of the microwave. We went shopping for a new Santa and I found a fun Lego advent calendar. Troy started calling me Buddy the Elf. Now that's a compliment I can live with.