Do you decorate outside?

[MorganGrayson]

Oh, I can't wait for the annual heavy sigh followed by "are you going to make me put lights outside this year?" talk. (I love tradition!)

Our new neighbors are so nice I'm tempted to have the lights put up. I'm also tempted to say "give it a miss this year."

We're going to use the top of the artificial tree that he bought for our very first Christmas together as a table top tree. We rearranged the furniture and have no place to put the big one. Every year I buy a new "Father Christmas" for my collection, or a new angel. (I alternate some years, some years I crack and buy both.)

With cats, we have to be very careful what we put on the tree. Haven't had tinsel or certain kinds of ornaments in decades. I love the look of candy canes on the tree...but hate saying "why on earth would a cat want to EAT a candy cane?!?!?" (So far, no answers have been forthcoming. Del even takes the candy cane out of his mouth and looks at me with that "I didn't do that....really!" expression.)

All decorations will be put up sometime in December. I get so burned out if they go up to early. My "ho-ho-ho" has a progressively shorter shelf-life as I get older.