I thrive in Christmas time

Christmas.  It is marvelous.  Christmas means increase in the warm fuzzies, the family love, and the homemade food.  Christmas means Christmas music.  Christmas means enjoying old woman activities such as: knitting, baking, cross-stitching, painting, cooking, and caroling.  Christmas means cold weather and bundling up.  Christmas means mistletoe and New Years and tons of possibilities for moments to arise.

CHRISTMAS MEANS DECORATING.

I mean tacky, extreme, overly cheery decorating.  At the Bailey household, we do it big.  
Goals for decor:
  put up ASAP (the day after Thanksgiving) to ensure maximum neighborhood triumph
  lots of snowmen and snow globes
  the more lights the better
  use of at least four extension cords
  make small children yell at the parents to slow down and look at our house
  beat the crazy people down the street with the man who drives the UPS truck
  the tackier the better
  something must inflate
  something must flash
  similar to this:

These things are done year after year in the Bailey household.  I thrive in the ridiculousness of such ridiculous ornamentation.  It is absolutely absurd how crazy we are about it all.  I love to joke about how completely whack and over-the-top all of our decorations are.....but that is what makes them ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.  I thrive in the tackiness.  For all other seasons of the year, I enjoy classy, simple things, but I excel in the unnecessary holiday hoorahs.  Playing the borderline crazy, nearly annoying, psycho Christmas lady is one of my all time favorite things to do.  Taking it all just past that level of normalcy to leave the neighbors in awe, is something I plot in my mind year round.   Yes-crazy.  Absolutely crazy.  Hokie even.  And I love it!

Life is much better spent, having something to be excited about.  So, I say, make everything exciting!  Hooray to the fantastic Christmas season and reveling in absurd holiday jolliness. Ho! Ho! Ho! and Merry Christmas!