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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive December 2004: Does anyone have their......
christmas tree up yet? We put our's up last night. Dh and I went shopping and got new gold bulbs, 2 cases, and 2 white garland lights for the tree, and a roll of beige plaid ribbon, it has the wire in it so it twists. I must say the tree looks very nice this year. I also threw up the small red bows from last year. I bought a new star it is so pretty all gold. Does anyone else have a theme this year for their decorations? I guess my is gold. Dh is outside right now putting up his christmas lights, curtain lights he picked red this year, I am not that fond of it, but he let me get away with the white garland lights on the christmas tree, so I did not say to much about the outside lights, should look pretty good when he is done. It is our turn to have all the family over for christmas this year, and dh wants the house to look fabulous, which is strange , he is really into christmas this year. what are your plans
Ours is up and lit, but no decorations are hung yet.
We bought ours and got it up and decorated today. I think it has scoliosis
Hi pam, I had the critter thing happen in my attic also, it is really frustrating, I did not lose anything that was special, sorry to hear you have to start all over again.
We will get our tree up on Thursday. Kids already put out all the other Christmas decorations!
Ours goes up on Thanksgiving along with all the decorations.
We will put ours up this week. The price of trees at the farm we usually go to are through the roof. I bought some of my wreaths there over the weekend and checked out the trees. The size I usually pay $25-30 for were up around $45 -$50. So I am looking around a bit this week. We will probably do ours on Saturday and the kids will decorate my mother's tree on Sunday.
All of our decorations have been up since Nov. 28th, thanks to DD (6). She is majorly into the holidays and all the festive activities. DH put the lights on the tree and DD decorated most of it by herself. It's quite a sight, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm with Trina. Ours have been up since the 28th. Timmy is just loving the lights both inside and out. It's all you hear from him when we're driving around.
All my decorations inside and out are all done and our tree will go up this weekend when everyone is home to help
We put our decor up the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Our's is up, lit, and decorated. We did the Sunday after Thanksgiving. All of our decorations inside and out are up as well.
We put ours up the weekend before Thanksgiving. We knew we would be gone all weekend after Thanksgiving. Our outside lights have been up since the first of November, but we didn't turn them on until Thanksgiving.
Our lights outside went up on Thanksgiving, mainly because the weather was nice and was supposed to get cold the next couple days and I wanted to get it done before it was too cold! Our tree went up that Saturday. Everything will come down the week after Christmas (by New Years).
We'll put out tree up today or tomorrow (dh's days off) and all the rest of the inside decorations go up then. No outside lights this year.
My tree has been up since the day after Thanksgiving. It doesn't have a theme, just a very simple tree with all our favorite ornaments on it, and candy canes. My husband likes character ornaments, so we have the cast of Rudoplh the red-nosed reindeer ornaments, winnie the pooh ornaments and others. It is simple and I love it
No! I am a little behind this year. LOL! We did partially decorate outside, so I guess that's a start. My Moravian star is up outside, and that's my favorite anyway.
We cut our tree down on Sunday. At the place we went it was $30 for all sizes-Colette, I can't believe trees are so expensive by you. Our tree is up with only decorations on the bottom half. I need to put the more delicate ones up on the top half of the tree and add small red ribbons and two large starting near the top of the tree. I haven't found the box that they are in yet. I'm probably a little more than halfway through decoarating the inside of the house. I also put up lights outside, but I need to buy one more strand to finsish it off.
No tree this year!
Eve, whats a Moravian Star????
Pam another stocking story. When my hubby and I married we x sticthed ornament for our tree, I showed him how and it was great. So we decided that stockings were next. We start in Nov and just kept working. In july I was almost finished with the stitching and still needed backstitching done. We had gone to visit my parents and I took it with me. I kept it in an old shoe box with all my thread. Well I stayed up late that night and put it all together and left it beside my dad's chair, when I got up the next morning i noticed it was missing, i started aksing mom, then dad. Well we live out in the country, he burns trash. I had set my box ontop of the newspapers and he assumed it was trash. So no more stocking, I got to see the last bits of the box on fire. I was very very unhappy. I mean hello, who would throw a box away without at least opening it. Geesh. Even sadder my hubby was not as far along as I, he secretly worked on his for awhile and got to where he just needed backstitching and realized that he could never hang his without reminding me of mine, so he has never finished it. And he is right, I would always be sad. I looked and looked for the same pattern to do it again, but never found it.
Eve, I'm Moravian on both my mom's and dad's sides! All of our relatives immigrated via the Texas coast. I've never heard of the Moravian star, or perhaps it's just one that did not get passed down.
We put our tree up on November 29 - it's a happy hodge podge of homemade and 'store-bought' ornaments. Quite a few things on there that the kids have made over these past 20 years....
awwww! Thanks for sharing Eve! I love the pic of you and Syd and the star. What a great story.
Kay-That's so cool! I can't believe you have not heard of the star. I would ask around in your family, I bet someone knows the history of that. I think of the Star and rolls! Do you have any good roll recipes that have been in your family?What a wonderful heritage! Lucky you!
You know, Eve, I think one of the reasons I haven't heard of the star is that neither my mom's nor dad's families really celebrated tremendously or decorated - they grew up during the depression, so getting an orange for Christmas was a treat! One of my dad's cousins has traveled to Moravia, so I'll check with her.
Kay-yes pull-a-part ones! Whenever I am in TN visiting, we always have the best rolls! You can find them at church sales. They come in a round tin. So good!
Eve, I just found a stained glass Moravian star on my tree!!! After doing some searches, and looking at various stars, I found a match for mine.
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. No themes here. I do have a table of nothing but snowman decorations that I'll leave up through February and I have 3 nativity scenes throughout the house. Our tree is a wonderful mish-mash of ornaments given to us over the years and those made by our kids. We also buy our boys a new ornament each year that represents an interest or activity for them. When they get married they will have a great starter set of ornaments for their own tree, but for now these hang on our tree. They love to get out their ornaments each year and talk about them. 
