Christmas Time is Here!

This is the sight you would see if you walked through the front door of the Stofer house. The fact that we have these decorations out means a lot to my family, especially since this Christmas is not going to be normal at all.



This year we are in the midst of selling our house and trying to find a new one. I figured this would happen, so I never really unpacked my stuff. (I still have stuff in boxes that I packed up when we moved out to Ogallala that I haven't opened since December of 2010.) As of right now, the closing date on our house is December 27th, so mom was hesitant to get out all of our Christmas decorations. But since we have yet to find a house that we want to buy, Mom allowed us to get all of the decorations out. The tradition in our family is to get out the Christmas decorations on the Saturday that is closest to my brother's birthday. The whole house is all Christmasified.

Two years ago, we didn't get any Christmas decorations out at all because during that December, Dad was living in Ogallala by himself, and we were preparing to move out there. It's actually something we now laugh at. We moved out there on December 22nd. (Which is also my sister's birthday.) On December 23rd, we spent the entire day unloading the trailer, and unpacking masses of boxes. We also managed to go register for school that day. On December 24th, we made a random trip to North Platte and bought our selves a tree. We also could not find the boxes with all of our tree ornaments, so we bought all new ones in North Platte as well. We had the most awkward looking tree ever. We thought it looked stupid at first, but then it became a joke. "Never wait until the day before Christmas to buy a tree..."

Christmas has nothing to do with all of the decorations, it's about celebrating the birth of our Savior. The decorations are just simple traditions that bring my family together. When I have a family of my own someday, I hope to instill these family traditions to them as well.

P.S. The tree is sitting in our brand new foyer/entry-way area, which looks pretty fancy for our lovely farm house built in 1928.
P.S.Again. The title is in reference to that Charlie Brown song that we happen to be singing for Encore. :)