Post mortem on Christmas

In the theatre world, we sometimes do what's called a "post mortem."  After the show closes (or literally after the death of the show), the production staff gets together and talks about what worked and what didn't.  This post is my post mortem on Christmas....

As I said in my post about holiday anxiety, I get easily overwhelmed during the month of December and generally try to keep the decorations to a quality-over-quantity minimum.  Still, I usually get a big tree.  This year, however, there was just no time.  I was stressed at the idea of trying to find time together to not only go get it, but to set it up and decorate it.  I had seen some cute little tabletop trees at Publix, but I knew B really wanted a big tree.  Mid stress out (on my part) one day, B suggested we go get one of the little ones instead.  It meant the world to me and we were able to get a tree much earlier  and easier than expected.

Christmas tree 2014... so little :)

WISE MEN STILL SEEK HIM.

Merry Christmas! This has been a stressful holiday season for me, mostly because of work. I'll be working on both Christmas Eve and Christmas.  Sometimes that can be hard, but I have a lot to be thankful for.  We celebrated Christmas a little early and we've done fun things here and there to be festive in our own way.

While it may be cliche, Jesus is the reason for this season.  I pray that we remember Him in this often hectic time.

I'll close out this post with a few pictures from my home decorated for Christmas.  I didn't do a whole lot of decorating this year, but we got a real tree (a noble fir, I had never had one of those before) and I put out a few other little things.

(personal photos)

Christmas tree!  With a train!

My adorable, but creepy, reindeer.  I swear she moves when I'm not looking.