For quite some time now, my boys have been wanting to get out our Christmas decorations. I keep telling them, "No, we always do it after Thanksgiving. So let's wait." In recent days, I have been wanting & needing to go through my Christmas things and purge and re-organize. So yesterday, I told the boys that if they were good and did all of their schoolwork - we COULD get out our Christmas bins. In my mind, I thought this would be a perfect time to purge, sort & re-organize it all. So as I would go through each bin, they would haul them upstairs for me. After a while, I noticed they were taking a while to come back for the next bin - "Humph!", I thought they probably got sidetracked - watching a cartoon or something. No sooner did I think that - and I hear running feet on the floor above. "Mom, come see what we did!" they shouted. I went upstairs to see bin lids strewn everywhere, our Americana decor in a heap on the floor AND the shelves were decorated with Christmas and the stockings were hung with care. And yes, it was just Nov. 20th! I would like to wish you all special memories as you plan and prepare for the upcoming holidays!
