Too Soon?

As the weather gets colder and the halloween decorations are replaced by Christmas decorations, I have the internal debate about when is it too soon to start decorating for Christmas?

Normally it is a tradition in my family for the tree and decorations to be put up on the first of December.  That gives a whole month of Christmas cheer.  However last year due to living with a grinch and me working 12 hours almost every day, the tree barely had a chance to share joy in my house.

This year again I will be working crazy hours, not to mention flying for a whole day to get back home.  So when is it too soon to start getting in the Christmas season?

I have started seeing Christmas jumpers not just in the shop but on people around town and a couple of days ago, I had to try and hold in my excitement as I saw a man on the tube with red Christmas converse.

So needless to say that I felt nothing but joy when walking home from work last night, as a Michael Bublé Christmas song came on my ipod, I did not skip it like I have been doing all year, I let it play and dreamed of a white Christmas right along with him.

Christmas decorating is a very serious thing in my eyes.  Everything has to be done a particular way and it hurts me when I see bad decorations.  This led to my Mum one year testing my strange Christmas OCD.  My colour scheme on my tree is normally red and silver.  I am normally very particular about where I put my decorations on the tree.  One year as I came downstairs in the morning, sat down on my sofa and looked at my tree, I noticed something was off.

"Has somebody moved one of these decorations?  The tree doesn't look right."

My Mum then proceeded to tell me that I have a problem because she had moved one of the decorations just to see if I would notice.

What she failed to noticed is that I would never put 3 red decorations next to each other, and hence was her downfall.

Last Christmas was the first that I have been away from home.  My sister and her husband, who I was living with before I moved over to London,  are also big Christmas people.  However while they were putting up some decorations, I asked for photos and from the other side of the world, directed them on where things should be placed and in what order.  After about 3 photos however, they had it a way that I would normally do it and although I wouldn't be there to actually see it in person, just knowing that my Christmas decorations were the way they should be gave me peace.

So reading back on this I realise that I have a problem, so maybe the house decorations can be held off for a little longer.... for my own peace of mind.

Either way this year I get the best of both worlds.  A cold Christmas with my housemates (a little earlier of course) and a stinking hot Christmas with my family.  And this girl cannot wait (to fix decorations)

Aussie Out
xo