Notes from Greencastle

Nov. 30, 2006

This nice blog I like

Dymphna's Well (http://dymphnaswell.blogspot.com). My very tired brain is not mustering much to say tonight, so time for another link. And all I can think to say about it, is that it's just this nice blog. Run by one of the ladies from the NFP forum, and a reliable source of catholic inspiration. Just nice. Go visit.

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And, ahem, here is how I rationalized having our Christmas tree up before it was even Advent, responding to the "Just Wait" post at Dymphna's Well:

1. Advent is awfully short this year. I'm sure we can hang on to our festiveness through Epiphany even with the tree up at least a week early.
2. The SuperHusband brought it home and set it up. With the kids. What was I going to do?
3. It's a pretend tree. Just the thing if you're pretending the holidays are here when they are not.
4. We haven't decorated it yet. So that counts for something, right?

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Dec. 2, 2006 - Christmas tree

Posted by thecatholicapologist

I like your Christmas tree rationalization! :) Although I wouldn't mind setting up our tree early...we never can get around to it. We just make up for it by leaving it up through half of January. With a real tree, it's a little more difficult. But we always enjoy going out and choosing it, cutting it down, dragging it home, vacuuming up the pine needles...all those traditions that we could never do without. ;)

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Dec. 3, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by greencastle

We've been known to extend the holiday season through to St. Blaise's Day in February, lol. In our live-tree days, we would actually keep it up in the house until it got to be a fire hazard, let it continue to dry in the yard, and then sometime no later than the spring equinox have the friends over for a tree-burning. But I'm pretty happy with the pretend tree. I'm thinking that as Christmas cards start coming in, I'll hang those on the tree (staple and yarn to attach) as the advent decorations, and then get it nice and fancy for actual Christmas. To make it a Jesse tree would be another option, but that is too complicated for me just now.

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