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Every year, the first weekend of December is the time to put up the tree and decorate the house for the holidays. Every year, I put on some Christmas music to listen to while I decorate. Here are a few of my most favorite albums:

Ya, I know the VeggieTales, but that album cracks me up. LOL. You can click on them to see where to buy them and to listen to clips from them.

So the day started out nice. All the boxes were brought up and stuck in the kitchen.

A little messy (and yes I still had some of my Halloween stuff up. I love that witch sign and it is usually on our back door.) Matt was trying to find his gloves and hat. He was alset with helping me decorate. All he wanted to do was eat the chocolate mint candy canes I bought.

So, I finally get our tree up. Yes it is a fake tree. I am allergic to real ones. But, I do have a wonderful Christmas Tree scented soy candle that I got recently a friends expo. You can get them here at HeavenScent Candles.

Tree is up!. Time for the lights. I love colored lights on my tree, but white lights on the outside of the house. We have never lite our house up with lights, but we want to eventually. It all depends on the electricity cost.

While in the process of putting the lights on, I found out that two ofthe three strands I use on the tree, no longer work. I have astach of lights down stairs in the basement, so I send Chantelle down to get me two more boxes. One of the boxes no longer works (I bought them years ago on sale after Christmas) and the other box of lights keeps flichering on and off, and they are not the blinking kind.

So off to the store I went (with Matt) to get a couple of new boxes of lights. Eventually we got our tree all lite up and the bead garland put on.

Now that the tree is up, time to decorate it. I spend a hour or so doing it (maybe more because I had to stop and do other things.) But eventually the tree was all finished.

Time to take out all 16 of my Nutcrackers. Yes, I said 16. I collect them. Every year I get myself a new one to add to the collection. I have yetto find that perfect one this year however. That makes my hubby happy seeing how I am running out of room. So here is my collection:

This guy is 2 feet tall.

The Nutcrakers hang out in the window on either side of my tree. Here is how the living room looks now:

This was taken at midnight right before I went to bed, so you can't really see the lights lite up, but they are on. Matt put the candy canes on after eatting one.

The baniser in the hallway gets all decorated too and holds our stockings.

I made the bows myself. My dad showed me how years ago. He use to make them when he worked at a local nursery years and years ago and sold them. Now you can find premade ones every where, but not as special to me as my own.

This is also in our hallway (a closet under the stairs), directly across from out living room, where we place all the Christmas cards we recieve. Yes, I have already started getting some. This one came 2 days after Thanksgiving. I guess my aunt and uncle wanted to get it over with early this year.

Now that the house is mostly decorated, it is time to plan Christmas dinner. Normally we order Chinese take out, but my hubby has requested a turkey dinner. We normally have everyone, from both sides of the family, over for the day, but this year my sister invited us to her house. So, if the weather is nice (kind of hard to say nice about winter in New England), we will be heading to her place in New Hampshire.