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Several times. Nuns are good huggers.I have to laugh a little. Have you ever been hugged by a nun? I thought I heard my bones crunching. They love and love and love and God bless them, ha!
I agree with you. To me, Advent is the start of the season, but is not Christmas. As a child, the tree was decorated on Christmas Eve day, since we were off from school. Now, we usually don't start decorating until about 3 weeks before Christmas. This year is different due to my wife being the host of the lady's group this time. It seems we are past the fall decorating scheme, but she wanted to have something. So our Christmas decorating started early. But the Nativity scenes and other religious décor will wait for the appropriate time.Christmas only starts on Christmas day and extends on from then. Advent only started tonight as the vigil for the first Sunday of Advent. The Christmas tree never arrives until at least the first Sunday of advent and it rests undecorated for it's first week. Only after that is it decorated. And it stays into January. Shopping never starts until at least advent and nobody open on Thanksgiving gets any of my business. I avoid the Black Friday hype as well.
amen. As the saying goes, "Happy HalloThankMus." blech. Abhor how the holidays are rushed. I don't want to see or hear anything Christmas until 1 Dec at the earliest. But this has become the time of year where I almost never listen to the radio (not that I do a ton anyway) and avoid stores like the plague because of the commercial rush. But it's not all the retailers; I saw a house or two that even had lights up before Thanksgiving. It makes me sick of it even before it gets here.For me, it is weeks too early, like it is a sin to be starting in November, even before Advent begins. We will save the rest for a couple of weeks, at least until early December. But I feel like we are following the secular trends where the Christmas season in the stores begins immediately after Halloween.
Wow really? What little I have is down by the first week of Jan.the seasonal décor is out until February or March.
I think he means winter seasonal. Not Christmas seasonalamen. As the saying goes, "Happy HalloThankMus." blech. Abhor how the holidays are rushed. I don't want to see or hear anything Christmas until 1 Dec at the earliest. But this has become the time of year where I almost never listen to the radio (not that I do a ton anyway) and avoid stores like the plague because of the commercial rush. But it's not all the retailers; I saw a house or two that even had lights up before Thanksgiving. It makes me sick of it even before it gets here.
Wow really? What little I have is down by the first week of Jan.
I was not clear. The Christmas décor comes down right after the Epiphany, but then my wife puts out snowmen, snowflakes and other winter stuff. She decorates by the season and major holidays, with Spring and Summer blending together after Easter. But Autumn (with associated holidays) and Winter (following Christmas) each have their own décor.Wow really? What little I have is down by the first week of Jan.
Hey come on, we moose have to eat too. Especially during the winter when foraging is difficult. But that wooden reindeer is a family treasure now and a reminder of your dad and Christmas' past.Christmas tree? With two hyperactive and overweight cats here? No, no, and no! My Mom taught me not to go asking for a mess.
Usually in our community, we start decorating on the first weekend in December. I love Christmas music!
When I was seven, Daddy made us all wooden reindeer with holly painted on their necks, like a collar. They're about 3 feet tall, and every year I set mine out on the porch with a sign: "Please don't feed the funny-looking moose."
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