Behind the Scenes: Decorating for Christmas

The dining room table is part finished, part full of WTF do I do with this stuff stuff. 

I won't front. I don't love decorating for Christmas. I love how it looks when the halls are decked, but the actual act of it I don't enjoy. Ripping the house apart, switching everyday breakables out with seasonal breakables, bringing stuff in from the shed, moving furniture around to accommodate the tree, tripping over dogs while carrying big ass Rubbermaid tubs up and down stairs, battling Gris (MFD is totally Clark Griswold at Christmas) over the front window display...not my cup of tea. The opposite of fun. Everyone's all I love decorating while drinking hot cocoa! and I'm all this sucks!

Sunday after a three hour drive home from Lori's I commenced Christmasing. I love to share the finished product, so I thought why not share some in the throes photos and thoughts?

1 - Shit on every available surface and a lamp from the living room in the dining room? Totally normal.
2 - While moving furniture, dog hair tumbleweeds magically appear out of nowhere.
3 - New R2D2 for out front has arrived, is opened and marveled at and set aside in pieces.
4 - MFD and I battle over the front window like the mother and father in A Christmas Story with the leg lamp. MFD's win for the year - large ornaments that will be suspended. My win - nothing on the base of the window because, you know, dogs. They've destroyed everything that's been put up there.
5 - Supplies, askew.
6 - That is not a prop from Criminal Minds. That is Santa in an XL Ziploc bag, yet to be placed. I should probably leave him in the Ziploc because if the dogs mark him for being a tiny intruder on their turf, it'll be easier to clean...but Ziploc Santa doesn't seem festive.
7 - Ornaments are stored in the spider house...I mean shed. Sunday morning I upended them and dropped them all over the spider floor. I aged 15 years in the three minutes it took to scoop them all up.
8 - I tend to pull outdoor decor that's stored inside out and just leave it where it lands until Clark scoops it up and takes it out. This little snowman box is actually blocking the powder room door from opening in the basement. Ho ho no.

And the cherry on top is that I walked upstairs after having not been up there for a few hours and totally forgot I just jammed the chair from the living room that gets moved for the tree into the bathroom, so I was shimmying that around at 11 p.m. LOLz for days.

Some housekeeping: the Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge link up to share how you did with your November Organize goals is this Thursday, December 4. The Show Us Your Books link up for anything you've read recently is Tuesday, December 9.

Next week, I'll share the finished Christmas decor product. Right now I'm still picking shit up and wondering where to place it. What about you - Christmas decorating fan or you do it because you like the way it looks in the end?