Decorating for Christmas

We normally decorate for Christmas on November 1st.  We used to wait until the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but we usually go to PA and things were so rushed that it wasn't fun to decorate!  Plus the decorations weren't up for long enough, I want to enjoy them for many weeks.  This year we waited until Nov. 11th to decorate.  Since the girls are in school now, we can't really do it on a weekday and I wanted to make sure that the whole family was involved.  I'm not sure I accomplished that goal this year, as I had a cold and was laying on the couch for  part of the time, Joel doesn't like decorating early so he brought in the stuff and then went to the store with Luke.  The girls had a great time though putting on the ornaments and setting up their small tree in their room.  And when Luke returned home, he decorated his small white tree.  I think we are ready!  I want to make sure I am very sick of the decor when the time comes to put it away :)