Thanksoween

I should start this with the following information: I LOVE Christmas. I love it, really, I do. A lot. I was raised that you don't put your tree up until the day after Thanksgiving, and I have held to that my whole life... until now. I don't know why, but this year I am even more excited than usual about Christmas, maybe it's because the kids are going to be so much fun this year, I don't know. Regardless, I am STOKED. I begged and pleaded with my husband to let me put the tree up early this year, and much to my surprise he agreed on the condition that I made Thanksgiving dinner on Halloween and then I could put my tree up November first. Indeed.

This year Halloween found me up to my ears in food. I made turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peas, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. A few people came over to eat with us and we had our first successful Thanksoween.

My tree is up, the garland is hung, the Santa's are out, in short, Christmas has arrived at my house. The only part I wasn't allowed to put up is the outside decorations, those have to wait until after Thanksgiving, but I can handle that. Sophie and Keegan loved helping decorate, in fact they re-decorate the bottom quarter of the tree about every ten minutes. And to top it all off. I have awesome leftovers for the whole week. I'm feeling a tradition starting here...