Today is the day that Christians celebrate the arrival of the Three Wise men. My great aunt Ellen always told me that this is the end of the Christmas season and no decorations should come down until after Epiphany. I have followed her advise my adult life. Sometimes the decorations end up staying up a little to long. Jim's birthday is March 9th - he starts riding me hard if they are still up around his birthday. There have been a year or two where they have came down on March 8th! I told him that is his birthday gift. Well having the day off from school due to the frigid wind chill, I decided this would be the day to get the decorations down. Jim will be so surprised when he gets home to see the living room back to normal. I do miss the lights of the tree, that is the hardest for me to get used to. I just love waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the living room lit with the lights from the tree. I used to love rocking the babies at night with the lights shining, maybe that is why I kept them up so long.
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