It's for the kids

After we got home from Thanksgiving, the mad dash toward Christmas began, spurred on by the kids continually asking when we would put lights up; get out their snowglobes; get a tree; etc, etc.  We (and by we, I mean Hubby with a little assistance from the kids) did get lights up by the first week of December.

 There was a little bit of leaf-pile jumping.

And I found some handy notes that I wrote myself after Christmas last year.  If only I'd read and taken heed of this several weeks BEFORE Thanksgiving!  See the first thing on the list?  :)