Since my sister-in-law is once again hosting Thanksgiving at her lovely home in the hill country, I decided there was no reason to pretend I wasn't chomping at the bit to usher in Christmas. Therefore, today I took pictures of all my current fall decorations here in the lake house so I can begin taking it all down. Tomorrow I'll start bubble wrapping and packing up my many pumpkins, turkeys and squirrels, oh my, so it can be stored in the attic until next Labor Day.
A couple weeks ago, I started unpacking and sorting the Christmas bins my husband hauled to the lake house. The man swore up and down he brought it all, but I knew better. I had purged all of my Christmas decor over the summer, but soon realized what I had in the lake house garage was nowhere near all of it. Sure enough, the husband left almost twenty bins of Christmas decorations back at the hill country house. So this weekend he's loading up the trailer and bringing the rest of my precious Christmas bins to me at the lake so I can start working on bringing Santa Claus to town.
I know it's going to take longer than usual to decorate the lake house. One reason it will take longer is because it's my first time to decorate this house for Christmas. So after the sorting, there will be a lot of contemplation to plot the best placement and arrangement for all of my stuff. It takes a lot of brainpower and organization to figure out the perfect spots to showcase the many Santas I've collected over the past 30+ years. Then there's the tree, which is always time consuming. I recently purchased a lovely nine foot spruce from Balsam Hill to use this year, and so that will definitely take longer than usual to perfect. And finally, I know I'll be just generally more particular about the overall look and feel of my holiday design because our lake place will be featured in the women's club Christmas tour of homes next month. And I'm so excited about that, y'all. Decking the halls is always such a happy undertaking for me, watching our space come alive with the scenes of the season!
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