Grinching

Mrs. Claus & I just completed our "grinching".... that's what we call it when we take the decorations down. While the North Pole Village decorations will remain up through New Year's Day, Mrs. Claus & I decided to take our decorations down early this year. We used live trees in the house but they didn't seem to be doing too well... I wanted to get them out and planted as soon as possible. Also, we're headed off on January 2nd to Hawaii to begin a month long vacation and I didn't want to spend New Year's Day taking down the lights. I'd much rather watch American football bowl games all day.

I never realize how many decorations we actually put up until we start to take them down and put them up. I must have hauled 30 boxes down from the attic. Not to mention planting 6 Christmas trees. It is a full day event to "grinch". But I must admit, that as sad as it is for Christmas to be over, it sure feels good to be done with the grinching. Definitely this is a bitter sweet time of year. But I do have a nice long vacation to look forward to....

For those that are wondering, Cupid is fully recovered. She sends her thanks for all of the cards, emails, and other well-wishes she has received over the past few days.

Well... that's enough for now. I"ll keep you updated between now and New Years. After that, I'm probably going to go to a monthly update through October before returning to daily.

Good night.

- Santa