![\"December](\"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/coffee_cups\/December.jpg\" "\\"December")
November and start of December have seemed to pass in a haze at times. Hyperion and I have both had swine flu. However, we both had lots of commitments — things that just can’t be pushed off. Some days it seemed like pushing that boulder up a mountain just to do it over and over and over again.<\/p>\n
However, I did find a December coffee cup. I spotted this at Home Goods and just burst out laughing. After the rough few weeks I just had, anything to make me smile, let alone laugh out loud just had to be the December cup. The only drawback to this design is it has to be used right handed. So, good ole lefty me has to remember to pick it up with the right hand.<\/p>\n
We didn’t feel like going all out for Christmas this year, so just did the tree and put out my collection of Santa statues — or most of them, some are still packed. We’ve been collecting Santa and folk art ornaments for years and the statues were just an extension of that collecting. If you look very carefully at the tree you’d see that most of the ornaments are Santa variations, bears, or folk art type, or some from our childhood trees.<\/p>\n My son is coming down for Christmas this year. He normally only comes down for Thanksgiving, but this year he couldn’t make it then and will be here for Christmas. We’re looking forward to his visit and we hoped to put up all the decorations since he hasn’t seen the house fully done up. We normally put up the tree the evening of Thanksgiving day or the day after since he lives in a small apartment and has a teeny tiny tree when he bothers with one at all. We may do more later but probably we’ll call it enough this year since we still catching up. I feel like I lost November all together.<\/p>\n However, I hope that you’re all enjoying getting ready for the holiday and forget the stress and the rush and just enjoy the spirit that’s in the air– I think it’s pine, cinnamon, and spice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November and start of December have seemed to pass in a haze at times. Hyperion and I have both had swine flu. However, we both had lots of commitments — things that just can’t be pushed off. Some days it seemed like pushing that boulder up a mountain just to do it over and over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,23,17],"tags":[300,304],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearth-and-home","category-holidays","category-knitting","category-writing","tag-christmas","tag-santa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Our](\"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/Tree_day.jpg\" "\\"Our")
Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love it. I love the smiles, the happiness, the anticipation. The happy holiday wishes from everyone. I don’t like buying gifts, wrapping them, or doing all that other stuff. But I love the feeling behind the holiday, not the commercialism. Heck, today is December 11th and I’ve only watched two holiday films so far this month. Well okay we’ve been watching the Star Trek<\/em> (original) movies and just finish The Undiscovered Country<\/strong> but still I miss not seeing the Christmas ones. The ones I did see are The Polar Express<\/strong> (this is the 25th Anniversary of the book) and Love Actually<\/strong>. Maybe if I finally get caught up on my writing and reading I can watch some more as I quickly knit to finish off Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n![\"Pointsetta](\"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/Tree_topper.jpg\" "\\"Pointsetta")
Last year I complained because we’d looked and looked and looked and couldn’t find a tree topper. We ended up buying a Santa that was made of white painted tin in a conical shape that fit on the top though it wasn’t an actual tree topper. This year, we stopped at one store and looked and found this one. This one looks much better lit up than in the box. It’s sort of poinsettia shaped and has lights inside it. It took a while to get it up since the cord is short and the tree we have has the lights already on it so the cords for each section go all the way down. Took two days to find an unused extension cord. But it really does look good at night.<\/p>\n![\"Collection](\"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/Santas_under_tree.jpg\" "\\"Collection")
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