I filed a column yesterday with Mt. X about the Halloween candy problem. It won’t run until next Monday, by which time, most intelligent people will have thrown out their leftover candy. After a week, we typically dump our reserves into the pantry candy jar and dole it out one piece at a time after dinner. Except, of course, adults are allowed access to the candy jar any time.
I’m supposed to be dieting, but those plastic pumpkins of forbidden goodies keep calling my fat cells, which seem to want more company (don’t they always?). My kids seem to like sorting and reorganizing their goodies almost more than eating them. My girl has built houses for her Calico Critters from multiple small boxes of Nerds.
So, here I am, focused on the after effects of Halloween: pumpkins rotting on the front porch, orange lights still hanging in the window, drawings of ghosts adorning the fridge.
But yesterday I realized that I need to get it together for the next holiday already. No, not Thanksgiving, but Christmas! Yes, city workers have already hung wreaths on downtown street lamps. The Biltmore Christmas tree went up on November 1. And I went to Fresh Market to grocery shop and about collapsed. The poinsettas aren’t available yet, but all the holiday gifts and goodies are already on display: Stollen breads, gingerbread cookies, stocking stuffer candies, even their Christmas Blend coffee.
Yowza. Now the holiday season lasts two months? Maybe I should just go ahead and put up my Christmas tree. Think I could baby it enough to last for two months?
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You know, we’ve gotten delightfully fresh trees at the Farmers Market the last two years, and, when we took them down right around New Year’s, they could’ve easily gone another 2 weeks. So, if you buy one in the next week or so, it just may last until Christmas… And to add to your disgust, I noticed on Friday that 102.5FM out of Greenville is already playing Christmas music!
No, Mama, let’s resist. There is plenty of time between Dec. 1 and Dec. 24 to shop till you drop. Or I drop. Whichever comes first.
Don’t give in. Clean up the pumpkins and dive into the turkey.
For three years when we lived in
West Ash we bought potted firs for Christmas trees. We put them on a table to keep them out of reach of our terrible toddler. We recently drove by the house and all the Christmas trees are doing well in the yard where we planted them in the early spring. My baseball fence lives too!
Makes me crazy how people get out the Christmas stuff waaaaaayyyyy too early!! The only thought I’ve had about Christmas - I have taken left over Halloween candy and hidden it so that we can use it on the Gingerbread House (which will not be made until the week before Christmas).
That’s a GREAT idea, Rio!!! Love it!