Tis' the season

Tis' the season for decorating! With Christmas fast approaching decorating in the Hoeppner house is moving right along. Last Wednesday we got our tree trimmed and decorated. Every year we get the finest tree from our local Home Depot, bring it home on top of the car and Jeremy trims it with his finest skills from when he worked on a tree farm in high school. Every year he strings the lights and I decorate with bulbs.

After pulling down all 5 tubs from the attic to my surprise I find each year I buy more and more decorations and have no place to put them. This year we have a new addition to the christmas decorations, well kind of, it's the fireplace, a place to actually put all the decorations. Years past we always hung the stockings from the tv entertainment center with care, BUT this year we have a chimeny/mantel to hang the stockings with care. I don't have them hung yet, I still have to purchase those hanger things and an additional stocking for Nolan! In those 5 tubs I also found 10 boxes of cards. Ten boxes of cards you ask, why so many? I asked myself the same question, actually it was more like "what the hell was I thinking". Our normal mother daugter tradition is to get up early the day after Christmas and stock up on more decorations for Christmas. Apparently these cards were too cute to pass up! I remember I was 5 weeks pregnant last year at Christmas and probably wasn't thinking along the lines of actually sending out Christmas picture cards of Nolan instead of actual paper Christmas cards this year. Looks like these will go back in the attic and wait for another Christmas to be used! It looks like this year I should probably clean out some of those tubs, donate some of the Christmas goodies and make room for MORE!

Excuse the paint on the fireplace, we haven't finished trimming it out.