How soon is too soon?

I know this is a pretty broad question.... too soon for some things might be too soon, while others might not be, do you follow? My question, in particular is how soon is it too soon to put up your Christmas decorations? See, I am a busy mom, and when I see a window of opportunity to do something, I feel that I should, no MUST seize that opportunity. I fear my opportunity came and went on Saturday. It was a semi-yukky day, rainy off and on. Lucas was out of town with the youth group, Brody was mushing his brain on video games and Larry and I were at loose ends. We went to I-HOP for breakfast (where I totally did good, only 3 pancakes and sugar free syrup). We came home with the day looming before us without anything to do. Can you imagine???? Me either! Anyway, I had the bright idea that we should begin the process of putting our overabundance of trees and decorations up for Christmas. This totally goes against my "never before Lucas's birthday" rule, but hey, the name of this blog is Crazy Hicks Family, you see we are busy.

I presented this option to Larry who was totally not on board from the beginning. Now you have to understand that we have almost been married for 17 years, and just prior to Christmas decorating season, Larry usually picks a HUGE fight with me so we will not be speaking during the annual putting up of the trees. This is a tradition in our house, and frankly, I think I caught him off guard! He couldn't think of a good reason not to do it, and we had been getting along too great lately to begin a fight out of the clear blue. He was baffled, but promised we would do it soon, but this was "too soon".

Did I mention that my BFF's are coming for an ornament swap on December 7? Did I mention that I usually put 5 full sized trees up and decorate 2 small one in the boys rooms? Did I mention we are busy? How about the fact that we are about to begin Upwards Basketball with Brody, claiming every Saturday and one night a week until the end of February, which coincidentally signals the beginning of baseball season??????

We did not get any trees, wreaths, lights, garland or tinsel hung this weekend. I can only look for my schedule to open up again around July. Ho Ho Ho.