I hope y'all weren't trying real hard to save all things Christmas until after Thanksgiving because Mila is not having it. AT ALL.
We've already established that I have feeeeeelings about this whole thing. Mostly I feel like I super love sparkly lights and I'm going to put them up if I darn well please. I will absolutely do my best to honor Thanksgiving by eating all of the food, but I'm going to do it while surrounded by Christmas trees.
Literally surrounded.
I'm adding two trees this year. I don't know where that puts me for a total, but I do know that if I put up one per day every day in November, I wouldn't finish before December. It's so fantastic.
And Mila is, of course, super in on this plot. She has been making sure more than one tree per day gets put up. She has more decorating spirit than Clark Griswold, frankly. She alone decorated two trees and she dug deep in her drawers to find every possible article of clothing with even a hint of holiday spirit. She found leggings, sweaters, skirts, socks ... all sorts of stuff.
And she wore all of it today. ALL of it. It was very Joey from Friends doing the opposite of going commando. SO MANY LAYERS OF SPARKLY AND BRIGHT.
I appreciate every second of her holiday spirit. There's just one problem. There is one new tree that I'm working on, and Mila REFUSES to cooperate. Every time I put a new ornament on it, she steals the ornament and uses it as a toy. I fear we're going to fight about this for the next six weeks. She is SO helpful decorating so many parts of the house, but that one tree. She just ... ugh.
Is that what I get for having a Toy Story themed tree? That's decorated with actual toys? I think maybe it is.
But I will win this battle.
(There will be photos of said magnificent tree just as soon as Mila leaves it decorated long enough for a photo.)