McLinky Monday - Christmas Decor

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year....

Sing it with me! The most Hap, Hap, Happiest Season of All...

I'm trying to get in the mood here girls. I was all into it until Black Friday in Wally World. Ugh. Women throwing themselves over plastic wrapped pallets of zu-zu pets did me in this year.

I have decorated for Christmas. We are living in 1400 sq. ft. this year. Many of my Christmas boxes went back up in the attic. Still the house looks great. We "have to" do a live Christmas tree every year so the tree is not up yet. We go to a local tree farm & make a day of it. This year we are going to do a SMALL tree so we still have square footage in the living room.

We have a special place for Charlie Brown in our family.
If you can pronounce my last name you understand :)


One of my favorite things about decorating for Christmas is having each of the kiddos place their ornaments on the tree. Oooing and Aaahhing over each one. I cry every year. I still have ornaments from when I was a baby. There is something magical about the tree all lit up at night.

 I'm really into Round Top Decor. They are a company out of Roundtop Texas. They make the cutest stuff!

My other favorite thing about decorating for Christmas is the nativity scene. We have two. One was a gift from my husband's aunt for our first Christmas together. The other, is my Grandmother's she purchased in Italy. Each year my children get to place baby Jesus in the manager. Somehow, year to year, they know who's turn it it to place Him. It was so cute, this year was our youngest daughter's turn. She must have taken an hour to place Him just right. We try to always reinforce the real meaning of Christmas for our family.

Christmas books are also part of our decor. We add one each year and set them out on the coffee table or shelf. It is fun to read them every year. My Grandmother gave me a book written by various authors.
Pick one up - it is a great reminder of what we should be celebrating.

So, today on McLinky Monday, 
we want to know when you drag out the Christmas decor!

Are you an early bird or late to the party? 
Do you have a traditional day that things get put up or are you just a go-with-the-flow kind of person?
We want to hear all about it!
Dish on the decor!  Be sure to come back and link up! You know the drill...
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