Decorating looked different this year. First of all, I broke all the rules and I don't have a single regret. When Ben was supposed to be coming home and then China was stupid and he got stuck in the Philippines for indefinitely, I decided we needed a little Christmas, right this very moment and decorated the house in early November. Scandalous, I know. But it was also an amazing distraction and gave the house a cozy feel, which is just what we needed. We watched Christmas movies while we waited for phone calls and found it fun to find Christmas treats out in the store, instead of being annoyed. It probably helped that we traveled for Thanksgiving and you have to pretend that it feels like winter here anyway. We bought matching Christmas jammies and Alison and I got Christmas bedding. I even put a little, live tree in our room...this is what the deployment crazies will do to you.
It was a great project for us all to work on together. On a trip to Hobby Lobby, we found these Nutcrackers you can paint yourselves and decided it would be fun to add that to our decorations.
I didn't want to put up ornaments without Ben and lucky for me, he came home before Christmas!
Every year we say it will be the last year for this to happen...
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