Christmas Planning

I just barley got home from Maine and now I am thinking about Christmas. Carter and Claire are going to be coming to our house for Thanksgiving, but not for Christmas. This is the give and take that happens when your child joins another family. I love Claire and her family and they are so great to Carter so it makes me happy. So this year I get Thanksgiving.

Since I only get Thanksgiving, I am starting to plan for Christmas too. I am going to morph Thanksgiving and Christmas together into one week. This is not such a bad plan from me since I have a crazy busy December. In order to have Christmas and Thanksgiving I am going to have to decorate the whole house for Christmas before Thanksgiving. I’m not mad about it. This means that I will not be spending my Thanksgiving weekend decorating. It is very helpful since my first Christmas party is December 1.

Let’s back up even further. I need to get some help getting the tree up and the decorations out of the attic as I won’t have Carter to help and Russ would love the help. I need to hire a man or two to help do all this lifting. So my thinking about Christmas now I am hoping someone reading this knows some men who I could hire November 14 or 15. Sounds crazy early, but I have to fit in the decorating between going to the Bahamas to teach and to going to DeBordieu to teach.

My October and November I am going to teach in the following far away places, Tallahassee, Irvington, Va, Houston, Lyford and South Carolina. This leaves little time at home to make these arrangements. It is a good thing I have a minute to think about it now while I am in Wilmington. I really should have thought about it while I was in Maine, but I didn’t know then that I was getting Carter for Thanksgiving and not Christmas.

I need to start planning for Thanksgiving 2026 now, since I won’t be getting the girls then. Shit, I need presents too. There is not enough time to plan.