I think is it weird that Christmas decorations and hair are similar. We love hair...we wash it, comb it, caress it, spend lots of money on hair products, shape it, kiss it and run our hands through it...but as soon as it falls off the body, it is the grossest thing we have ever seen. You might stand at the cash register and compliment the cashier on how well her hair looks today. But when you get to your table and her hair is in your sandwich it is a completely different story isn't it?
Christmas decorations are similar in that leading up to Christmas we adore our decorations, we long for our decorations, we need our decorations to "get us in the Christmas spirit." Yet as soon as Christmas is over we are tired of our decorations and can't wait until they are stored away for another year. We rejoice as they are finally placed in plastic containers and put out of sight. Somehow the things that only a few weeks earlier were a requirement to have a good Christmas do nothing now but remind us of some undesirable memory that we would rather ignore. In ten months we will completely forget about this time.
This year i was able to convince my wife to not drag the huge Christmas tree out of the attic. My whole line of reasoning is that we "might" just go out of town at Christmas so there would be no real need for the big tree. It was so nice only having 4 Christmas trees this year and not breaking my back getting the big one out of the attic again. Of course that little line of reasoning cost me 2700+ miles and a lot of money going to Phoenix/Dallas during the holidays, but hey, i didn't have to get the big tree down! And now that we are home we walk into our home each evening and look upon our remaining Christmas decorations with disgust.
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Such wisdom here!!
What IS it about human nature that is just disgusted (as you say) with the very things that only a short time earlier you were enthralled with. Maybe I speak for myself. Maybe I definitely should NEVER find a hubby if this is how I am!:) I am going lighter and lighter every year with the decor...remembering how much I despise taking it down...but yet I keep excitedly buying lovely clearance ornaments....Keep me in your prayers!:)
Keep blogging (it's better than FB...HaHaHa!)
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