Breaking with tradition
I have always been one of those people who firmly believed that you shouldn't start decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving. The two holidays needed to be separate. Finish celebrating one before starting on the next. Part of that comes from when I was a kid. There was a store in downtown Omaha, where I grew up, that would cover the big windows that wrapped around the building in the middle of November. Then, on the day AFTER THANKSGIVING, there was a big reveal of the Christmas displays. It was a big deal. We would go down to the store to be there for the big unveiling. It was magical , and it meant that Christmas was well and truly underway. I loved it. And I think that the limited time of seeing the decorations and hearing the music made it all the more special. So that became the way that I did things. But 2020 is different. Today is November 10th and I am putting up my tree. I am putting the colored lights on it and I am lighting it. I am not going to put the ...