I'm finally getting in the mood for Christmas

I'm usually one of those people who puts up their Christmas decorations Thanksgiving weekend. But this year, I've had a hard time getting in the mood. I don't know why... but I just keep putting it off! Every day I say I'm going to get the stuff out of the garage (we're talking lots of storage totes) and every day I end up doing something else (usually something senseless like watching reality TV).

So today when we woke up and found the first SNOW of the season, it was like someone hit me in the ass with a snowball and said "get those decorations up." All of a sudden I was motivated!

Bryant went outside to play with Karson in the snow...

Then Bryant and Cooper spent hours sitting in the back of the truck trying to look cool for all the people walking by...

And by the time Bryant came inside, the tree was up.

I can't say this is a "good looking" tree... it's fake. It's only the second time in my life I've had a fake tree... but I couldn't justify the cost of buying a real tree this late in December (shame on me for waiting this long to get the tree up... I know).

As if I wasn't already feeling like shit for waiting so long to get the decorations up, my lovely son came inside and said, "Oh mom, I love it. I love Christmas. I wish we could have Christmas for a whole month not just one or two weeks. I want Christmas forever. "

Yeah, so I feel like a giant ball of crap. Taking away the excitement of Christmas for a little boy for the last 3 weeks...

Bryant was so excited about the decorations, we went around the living room with my camera and took pictures.

He took over 25 pictures... and I'll save you from viewing all of them. But these are the three he says are his favorite. Enjoy!

By the way, I have a 4 week break from my Master's program and a 3 week break from teaching coming up... so I promise to be a better blogger starting this week.