Oh hey, you are preaching to the converted. I believe Christmas decorations should go up on Christmas Eve and come down on the 6th. I am a traditionalist through and through on that score. I grew up with that and generally still try and keep to it. As a child the excitement was immense and the whole family, five children, 2 adults did all the decorations together and it was wonderful. Of course my poor parents must have been utterly exhausted as they then had to do the whole preparation for Santa and his reindeer but they were immmense too.
At work our Christmas tree is still up in the entrance hall, a huge, beautiful thing and only today I was remarking how pleased I was that it was still up there.
Happy new year. We didn't even think about Christmas until about a week beforehand, and that proved to be a good time for us to get the tree decorated (we usually do that during early Advent, to build anticipation!).
Sadly, the Catholic Church, worried as usual perhaps at losses of numbers at Mass outside of Sunday, has moved Epiphany to the first Sunday after New Year. Which of course this year was the very next day. I haven't taken our tree down though ;-)
And scrabbling for a nativity for our Prizegiving (as one of my students smashed the whole thing unpacking it) was really difficult. Lots of decorations in plenty of stores, few nativity sets.
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At work our Christmas tree is still up in the entrance hall, a huge, beautiful thing and only today I was remarking how pleased I was that it was still up there.
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Sadly, the Catholic Church, worried as usual perhaps at losses of numbers at Mass outside of Sunday, has moved Epiphany to the first Sunday after New Year. Which of course this year was the very next day. I haven't taken our tree down though ;-)
And scrabbling for a nativity for our Prizegiving (as one of my students smashed the whole thing unpacking it) was really difficult. Lots of decorations in plenty of stores, few nativity sets.
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