I'm one of those "Christmas people" and I make a big deal out of it every year. It's hard this year, all my Christmas traditions like Decorating Day and my "Weekend Before Christmas Dinner" that I do for my close friends plus my open-house big party Christmas Eve are all canceled for Covid. I'm still recovering from surgery so I wasn't even sure if I'd put up lights and such at all this year. So I've been depressed about it.

Well...it got decided today. We're doing Christmas!!!! I got some surprises delivered about an hour ago. My New Dude ordered me four custom made ornaments for the small live tree I put in the back parlor and a set of six antique ornaments for the huge fancy display fake tree I put up in my 12-foot ceiling front room. These are such perfect gifts... the custom made ornaments are from a local artist I like to support and the antique ones match the silver & white theme of my big tree.

I texted him to thank him and he started sending me pictures of trees he's looked at today telling me to pick one and he'll bring it home tonight. He's planned it out with the one Bestie who isn't quarantining from us that the three of us will still do Decorating Day on Saturday ( my tradition is we decorate the first weekend in December )

I've got my holiday spirit back!!!!

This is such a huge contrast to my LVM ex who hated Christmas and wouldn't even help hang lights or do anything for the parties ( But he'd come for the dinners and stuff his face and get stupid drunk though 🙄 )