One last look at Christmas before it comes down. Indulge me. New Year's is over and I have one grace day before heading back to work tomorrow (though I did work last week).Today is one of my least favorite days of the year - Taking Down the Christmas Tree Day. I'll leave the creche in place until after Epiphany, but everything else starts coming down.
My little tree has served me well. I will sorely miss its lights, baubles, and smell. I'll take the tree for recycling, but before I leave it on the heap with the others, I'll hold on to a branch and thank the little evergreen for making the house so lovely. Kate laughs at my little Christmas tree separation speech, but I feel some sort of formal goodbye is in order in the face of such service to the holiday.
So off I go. Unfestooning is not as much fun as festooning, but there's a strange satisfaction in getting things back to their normal arrangement. Still. Sigh.
Your photograph conveys a great feeling of cosiness Mary. I can almost hear the crackle of the fire .....
ReplyDeleteShouldn't you be waiting for Twelfth Night though ? Not that we do here at home - someone will shortly be downstairs taking down our artificial tree. We usually have a real one but we've got fed up of all the pine needles.
I do keep the creche in place (it's on a table in the dining room)until Epiphany, but everything else comes down on New Year's Day or quickly thereafter.
ReplyDeleteI love my real tree and wouldn't have it any other way, but I have hardwood floors, which makes cleanup/sweepup a lot easier than if I had carpets everywhere.
A good New Year to all the Wildgooses!
I think it's rather nice when I can take everything down after the holidays. Maybe it's just me who gets sick and tired of red and green, but at least during later years I've had enough after a few weeks...lol
ReplyDeleteIn Sweden they won't take down the tree until January 20. It's an old tradition and maybe that's why I'm so fast to clean out Christmas these days, I don't know.