tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post4542839311738256520..comments2024-03-27T20:40:50.047-04:00Comments on Success Along the Weigh: SighAnele @ Success Along the Weighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03986921867517926199noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-17453483996137262092012-01-19T22:55:14.365-05:002012-01-19T22:55:14.365-05:00I love, love, love your ornaments! And the way the...I love, love, love your ornaments! And the way the lights showed up in the pictures was so pretty---very nostalgic looking for me. We try to get the tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving and tend to take down the tree the week after New Year's. This year the hubs put up his bay window village before Thanksgiving so mom could see it (since we go to her house for Christmas). That is still up but all the other decorations are down now. The village he'll take down a bit at a time. I personally like the "winter scene" during the drab months.dalbador1https://www.blogger.com/profile/09877799102438622117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-46081107128223229282012-01-19T22:07:38.702-05:002012-01-19T22:07:38.702-05:00Christmas comes down on King's Day here, Jan. ...Christmas comes down on King's Day here, Jan. 6 (called Feast of the epiphany or little Christmas in some regions). It's the first day of the Mardi Gras season down here, when King Cakes become available. I loved seeing your ornaments and how meaningful they are. That is awesome!MissyEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04908854239406213971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-15278217732812045762012-01-17T22:10:05.482-05:002012-01-17T22:10:05.482-05:00I love your Christmas ornaments! Marc and I just s...I love your Christmas ornaments! Marc and I just started this year with giving ornaments in our stockings. I gave him a picture of us in a little stocking with "2011" on it. He gave me a weird little drummer boy and laughed when he gave it and said "by the time I went shopping, this was all that was left". HAHAHA!Czesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04659055822037057266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-1094369325751274562012-01-17T20:19:44.767-05:002012-01-17T20:19:44.767-05:00We have four [artificial but very realistic] Chris...We have four [artificial but very realistic] Christmas trees: a tall Daddy-tree, medium Mommy-tree, and two short kid-trees! We leave them up until March 22, which is our son's birthday and the beginning of spring. We enjoy how beautiful they are for a quarter of the year. We do have a large living room; if we didn't I would be anxious to reclaim the space.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06503918543497231029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-70708577124937616682012-01-17T14:37:21.621-05:002012-01-17T14:37:21.621-05:00At least some portion of Christmas is up until Jan...At least some portion of Christmas is up until January 6 (Epiphany), and usually most of it. We still have lights out on our deck and roof, but we turned them off (sadly) January 7--my Mr. hasn't had time to get to them and probably won't for a bit now that we have, oh, 5-6" of snow outside. LOVE your ornaments; we have been collecting at least one special dated ornament a year since we got married 31 years ago, so it's a big deal for me to pull out each one (in order, of course) and find a place for it on the tree. Sigh; I love Christmas, and it's always bittersweet putting things away.<br /><br />I do remember one year having things still up on my birthday (today!) because we got sick and just had too much going on. That's a little too late even for me, I'm afraid!Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794334786555278616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-3032425908903936222012-01-17T13:38:48.557-05:002012-01-17T13:38:48.557-05:00What a lovely tree!
We make a big deal out of Adv...What a lovely tree!<br /><br />We make a big deal out of Advent (in keeping with our faith, it's a season with it's own mystery and charm,so the actual 'Christmas'decorations don't go up until after the fourth Sunday of Advent... ... we have a Jesse Tree until then. Also in keeping with our faith tradition, the Christmas season isn't over until after Epiphany... so everything stays up at least until the 8th of January... but because I'm Ukranian, I take greast liberty and even though we don't celebrate according to the Gregorian calendar, I leave the tree up until after Ukrainian Epiphany... next Sunday! By then I actually feel ready to move on, LOL.<br /><br />I can make you an honourary Ukrainian, if you'd like!<br /><br />{{{{{{{{{ HUGS }}}}}}}}}ramonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04266437063946876795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-7793730379970924172012-01-17T13:36:56.607-05:002012-01-17T13:36:56.607-05:00I'm not much of a Christmas decorator (it'...I'm not much of a Christmas decorator (it's so much fun to put up and not so much fun to put away!) so I really enjoyed the photos of your hard work! Thanks for sharing!!Kathihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206555720885684042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-66374975702128482292012-01-17T11:15:36.556-05:002012-01-17T11:15:36.556-05:00My tree is still up, as are all my other Christmas...My tree is still up, as are all my other Christmas decorations and I have many many Christmas decorations all over my house. It is a 2-week job to get them all up, and takes at least that long to get them all back down and put away. Why do I do that? Because I love Christmas evidently as much as you do! I too adore the decorations on both our trees and have many favorites. Just yesterday we took a day trip to Omaha (50 miles) and toured the Durham Western Heritage Museum there. I bought a Santa on a Train ornament as a remembrance of the day. It is appropriate since the museum is in the Union Pacific train depot!<br /><br />Hopefully I will soon enlist the help of hubby in carrying the storage boxes downstairs and can get my decorations down before Feb. 1. But there have been times in past years when at least some of the decorations were still up on March 1. But don't tell anybody else cause that's a little embarrassing.dupsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18088114640385927198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-76602372316753189162012-01-17T09:47:13.212-05:002012-01-17T09:47:13.212-05:00We "usually" put up and take down our Ch...We "usually" put up and take down our Christmas decor whenever we get around to it. It varies widely from year to year. If it makes you feel any better, hubby just took the outside Christmas lights down this past weekend. We didn't take our tree down until last weekend, so, you're not too far behind! :-)Kimberly Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07035168471351870760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381223979507114346.post-91684763101714886572012-01-17T08:23:15.286-05:002012-01-17T08:23:15.286-05:00Usually right after Christmas. Like the 26th. Th...Usually right after Christmas. Like the 26th. This year I waited until Jan. 2nd.another layerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15756727485274694135noreply@blogger.com