If there’s one holiday that I truly love it has to be Christmas. That’s why today is such a sad day for me. Today we took down our Christmas ornaments and took out our tree. All the beautiful glowing lights that decorated our home both inside and out were also taken down. Usually I don’t allow any Christmas decorations to be taken anywhere until after the the feast of the Epiphany (when the wise men came to visit).This is not because I am a old school Catholic, we usually wait because the tradition of the three wise men was always done when I was growing up so I also do it with my kiddos. The twist we use is that instead of Santa filling our stockings, it’s the wise men that leave goodies.
Because of this tradition we leave our stockings and all other Christmas decorations up until January 7th. This year however things are different. Even though we were checking that our tree had water (we use a real tree) it dried out too fast. It got to the point that it was really dry and dropping needles every time we walked by. So my hunny decided it was time to take down all the decorations except for the stockings.
This would have not been such an issue for me normally, however this time it was. My hunny decided himself that today was the day and didn’t even mention anything to me. So can you imagine my shock when I came up stairs with a load of clean laundry and saw that 1/2 the ornaments were off. It was a total shock to my system.
I was hit with this sudden mix of anger and sadness. I couldn’t even talk to him I was so upset. Now that I’m writing this (hours after) I can’t even tell you why I got so upset, but I did. Now I know that you have to experience sadness to know happiness. I make it a habit on the tough days to remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, and that all bad days come to an end. So I took to putting away the folded laundry and stayed away from the living room. When I finally had the courage to emerge from my solitude I found my tree bare.
Oh well, I guess I have to wait 11 whole months for another Christmas tree.
When do you take your decorations down?
My stuff was down yesterday! For me, when it is over, it is over! Great post.
#tuneituptuesday
That’s how it is for my mother too. 🙂
This is almost the same as my feelings when I realized I wasn’t getting my tree and decorations on black Friday lol