I win

You know, I find rather funny that every marriage seems to suffer from the same argument...

When do you start preparing for Christmas?!?

This includes playing Christmas music, decorating, getting a tree, facing death to put lights up on the house, buying presents, wrapping presents, wishing people a Happy Holiday and being ridiculously happy ALL the time.

While yes, I agree that some parts of Christmas merriment should be left to December {like in our family we HAVE to wait until then to get our tree or it will die and lose all it's needles in our living room - we love the smell though!!}, there are aspects that, I feel, can be enjoyed in November or even {heaven forbid!} October.  I know you're giggling to yourself because this could probably have been written by you!!

Last year, you may recall, Clint left me for a week right after Halloween {for a training out of state for work} with a newborn and a 3 year-old.  That wasn't too bad, Madi adjusted to Maelee really well, but we had had a horrible Halloween and I was pretty bummed that I didn't get to take my adorable little Tinkerbells Trick-or-Treating.  Anyhoo... to make a long story short, I cheered myself up by decorating for Christmas right after taking down my scant Halloween decorations.  I think that was the best thing I ever could have done because instead of only enjoying my December decor for one month, I had it up for TWO and by the time I took everything down... I was READY to take it all down!  In my mind, that totally makes it worth the investment of all those knick-knacks. 

I was teasing Clint that THIS year, I was going to start listening to Christmas music in October instead of November {that's kind of the rule 'round here} and he gave me that look that every wife knows means, "Ha ha, right?"  Oh, that look!

Yesterday Clint and Madi picked out some CD's to burn onto our XBOX because we only have a few on there and need more of a variety.  They picked out the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack and we danced ever so regally with pretty cloth and vivid imaginations... Madi, Maelee and I, not Clint.  He watched and laughed.  We let him.  :O)

ANYway, I was tidying up this morning and found a stack of CD's left out on the entertainment center that, I'm assuming, Clint meant to burn on there sometime today... {which, of course I had to get out the other 4 CD's and then burn them before he changed his mind!!!} :O)

"Do you see what I see?" said the proud me to my giggling friends...  Yeeeeeah, I win.  Hands down, I win!