Unconventional Holidays!

Turns out our current family take on our celebration of holidays is a bit "unconventional." After a few years of not such fun holidays we decided maybe we should re-think how we do it. We looked at the holidays that usually go well and figured out that they are the holidays without a lot of hype and build up (Thanksgiving and 4th of July). It seems our boys get so hyped up about the holidays that by the end of a long hyped holiday they have peetered out and well are pretty much done. That is no fun for us because the big bang comes at the end and well the boys are just finished by then. This year we shortened up Halloween to a 4 day celebration, granted it was a full 4 days, and the boys LOVED IT! It wasn't a bunch of hype with no bang....it was just all bang for them. After such a fabulous Halloween we decided that Christmas should be similar, so we are having what many consider an unconventional holiday. We aren't getting our tree until the weekend before Christmas and then the week of Christmas we will fill with Christmas preparations. We'll decorate cookies, the house, the tree, adn whatever else we can jam pack into that week. We will pull out the Christmas countdown calender and plan to prepare some Christmas gifts before then but other than that we are keeping it low key until the week of celebration begins. We'll see how our unconventional, short, holiday goes. Stay tuned.