I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

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Depsite the minor glitch in our plan to decorate for Christmas last weekend (just kidding Ojash, you're not a glitch... hehe), Mike and I redeemed ourselves Monday evening. We were excited to set up the decorations but, to be honest, it was a bit lack-luster.

Don't get me wrong, we had a great time putting everything in place. What's not to love about setting up for Christmas with Christmas Vacation playing in the background? ("She wrapped her damn cat." baahahahahaha)
















Upon completion, we realized three things...

first, our Christmas set up looked all too familiar so I pulled out pictures from the past and this arrangement is in fact...








the exact set up we had in our old apartment (picture courtesy of Christmas 09, our first as a married couple, awwww)















second, we are in desparate need of a new tree, because it's so teeny-tiny, which finally led us to the obvious conclusion that we are actually in need of new furniture and decor in general. The furniture will come (for example, a new dining room table and wall decor for the dining room area), in fact we have a kinda-sorta plan over winter break. As for the Christmas decorations and tree, we decided to wait until after Christmas when everything goes on crazy clearance. It just seemed to make the mosr sense. Until then, we are still finding a way to enjoy our little tree.






After all, it is our first Christmas in our new home and that's still pretty exciting. =)




Comments

  1. LindsyDecember 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM

    http://pinterest.com/pin/31806741087927113/

    Saw this and thought of you!
    Cheers

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  2. Mike and SarahDecember 11, 2011 at 6:20 PM

    Yes! Love it Lindsy and so true =).

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