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2012-11-20 07:48:20 (UTC)

Almost the holidays

Aside from all of the side conversations and people suddenly stopping their conversations when people walk into the room I know the holiday season is upon us.

Yesterday my wife had me get the Christmas decorations and our artificial tree from the shed. Out living room and dining room are now decorated for Christmas.

Growing up, traditionally we waited until the day after Thanksgiving to put up the tree and New Years Day to take it down. But in our household the tree and all the trimmings go up SOMETIME in the early to mid November range and comes down later Christmas Day or at the very latest the day after Christmas.

For the sake of my sanity I am just going to go with the flow, not point out the way we "always" do it and how we aren't doing it that way this year. I am going to just let things happen as they may and enjoy all I can out of it. This is going to be a stress free season for me this years...hopefully.

Thanksgiving this year could be potentially one for the record books. Our eldest daughter moved out of our house and in with her boyfriend several months ago...she is hosting Thanksgiving as well as Christmas dinner this year. There will be us and her boyfriends family. At least on the surface it looks like the two families do thing quite different.

As much at my wife likes being in control it will be interesting to see how she handles having to make allowances for other people.

I plan on sitting back and enjoying the show. My prediction is that in the moment she will appear to be calm and accommodating...but once we get home I think we will get to hear how horrible everything went. We will see...




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