TabFan1 – Thanks for your awesome thoughts. And yes, this is the very same infamous dog. For those of you who missed, read IT ALL WORKS OUT

SweetPeace – you make me laugh

Rebecca – Cool! Happy Birthmas

I love Christmas too, and I can listen to some Christmas music year round, and I never tire of the spirit of peace and goodwill and remembering the Savior. But honestly, the lights and glitter and ribbon and all that stuff gets old after three or four weeks. By the 26th, I’m ready to take it down.

And yet, just today, I was telling my wife, “No, we can’t start Christmas shopping yet.”. Sigh.

I don’t suppose I would like to have Christmas up until Feb either.
In this house, we are luck to get Christmas out before the 21st, and it gets put away usually before New Years. That is how it was growing up for me. and whereas I desire to have Christmas up longer because of the sweet spirit I feel with it when the kids are sleeping. The kids, 2.5, 4, and 7, LOVE to play with Christmas and ornaments and decorations and then broken. I get tired of telling them to stop touching. Then that whole spirit that I love having is gone.
So we just don’t put it up until the last minute and take it down right after. Maybe when they are older, and listen better.

P.S.
Is that the same Joey that got sick in the nice family room with the piano that you were frantically trying to clean before your voice student showed up?
Looks like a big dog.