I Jumped the Gun

Typically, I profess to stick to the old 'wait until after thanksgiving' rule when it comes to Christmas decor, and music listening. I should probably just stop holding myself to such unrealistic expectations though because the last two years I have totally not even come close to that. Like, I set this baby up last week. We're six weeks out from Christmas and I'm already drinking egg nog and blasting Bing Crosby in the car.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for Christmas?

It all started with the first snow storm we had here in Utah last week. I couldn't help it. It made me feel so... cheery. Then I went to Target and heaven knows they had all their Santa Claus crap out and jingle bells was blasting throughout the store and before I knew it I had spent like $200 on assorted Christmas items! It was kind of like being brainwashed, actually.

So I'm sorry if I ever condemned anyone for setting up their holiday stuff before Thanksgiving because I'm going to go eat my words now.

I decided to go with the brown wrapping paper this year. Although I'm not a huge fan the gold sharpie actually (maybe if I had better hand writing?) so I bought some tags to go on the rest of the gifts.

I've been pinterest-ing up like crazy mad. Christmas pins everywhere. It's terrible. I have all sorts of ideas and only limited funds to execute them.

Help me.

Tell me I'm not the only one who has been suckered into this Christmas madness.