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I'm not a person who really celebrates Thanksgiving. On the Thanksgiving week that my girls are with their dad, I don't make a fancy meal or get with family. I have my own Thanksgiving day tradition: I set up the Christmas tree.
My tradition of setting up the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving started with my mom when my brother and I were kids. She would put the tree up, string the lights, put decorations on, along with all our handmade ones from school that year and the years before, and of course the star ornament. She loved to put icicles on the tree as well in the later years.
My kids always want to help me put the decorations on, but I think I'm too much of a control freak when it comes to the tree. It's the ONLY thing that I'm a control freak over. Maybe I get that from my mom as she often did the decorating herself. I will say that in the teen years that maybe she let us help if we wanted, too, but for the most part it was all her.
She never had a 'theme' or did her decorations the same way every year. Here is where she and I differ. Lately, I sort of been having a 'theme'. It usually ends up with a color scheme. Maybe one year it's gold and another it's silver. Last year, I wanted to do just silver and blue. I tried, but when I saw it, I couldn't take that it wasn't colorful. So, I added color to it. Despite the fact that it will be silver or gold in a general theme, it will have added color.
For the first time in at least five years, I don't have the tree up on Thanksgiving or even the day after. I've been sick this week and haven't been motivated to do much. I did manage to cook a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, because my girls wanted one (my stepson usually goes to his grandma's-mom's side-every year). I've been doing a lot of things they wanted despite being sick. Yesterday it was the mall to see 2012 and hang with friends and sitting in the rain/cold at a football game between a local high school and one from another city for playoffs.
I don't know when I'm going to get that tree up. My mom and my oldest are coming during Christmas break, so this means rearranging the sofa sleeper, cleaning the sheets, and getting the living room ready. We have to arrange the sofa sleeper so that when it's extended it will not interfere with the tree and vice-versa. Now if I could just feel well enough to be motivated to do all of that.
