Peggy, little girls like you usually get their pigtails dipped in the ink well. No, that was even before my time. ha The rules: We don't mention Thanksgiving until after Halloween and we don't decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Those are the rules!! Well, maybe those used to be Wynnewood rules but not true even there now, some people leave their lights up all year and some leave their tree up. I like the look of transforming the house, if stuff was up all year, it wouldn't be much fun to just flip a switch. But Boy, I don't wait long after Thanksgiving to decorate for Xmas, if I can I like to do it the weekend after Thanksgiving. For one thing, two of my kids and grandkids have gone back to NM or Calif. and getting all that Xmas stuff out sure helps keep the blues away, oh, any quiet moment they flit across my mind but the work does help. And then after the house is decorated I feel much more like Xmas shopping and cooking and freezing and the many thingsI have to do. and having people over. I like to get it all out the night before and then the next morning put on a Chick Flick and watch that while I decorate the tree and house. I have the pre lit tree with mixed colored bulbs so that part is pretty simple. My stuff is getting old but I am so sentimental I can't toss much. I even have some that Mom used when I was a kid. When I am through, it is time for breakfast and the first time I decorated out here in the country,by the time I was through I was soooo hungry!! I looked in the fridge and the only thing that appealed to me was some Walmart Crab Salad/sometimes seafood salad. It is mostly seafood flavored pasta but I love it, and for breakfast I finish off the movie with the seafood salad eaten on Ritz Crackers and a cold diet Coke. ummmm! OK, see it's all your fault Peggy, I'm thinking about Christmas before Halloween. ha ha. Nova \ . In a message dated 10/20/2011 6:09:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I want to remind everyone little over 1 month is Thanksgiving & little over 8 weeks is Christmas. So get ready to start buying. Peggy ------------------------------- Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message