We're decorating early (for nuns) this year. Used to be Christmas Eve Day was the day for decorating the world.
But here today, we set up the creche in the morning, attached the wreaths to the cross and the front door and we'll start trimming the tree in another half an hour. All that to say that the last-minute flurry of things to be done will be a little less complicated for those of us actually doing the doing. Wahoo!
"K.I.S.S... or Keep It Simple, Sister" is our motto this year. We'll see how that goes. Over the years traditions develop in any family or community, and somewhere along the way those little extra touches that one person added one year become cemented in the communal memory and then that extra little something becomes a MUST DO.
Not this year. The creche and the tree are the priorities for decorating. Cookies for the Wassail Party on Christmas Eve are already in the works, we'll have a big dinner on Christmas Day, and that will be it.
Meanwhile, there are groceries to buy, laundry to be folded, and menus to be planned. Life is good.
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