I love decorating for Christmas. This is our first Christmas together in a house instead of an apartment, and I am really looking forward to getting everything done that I can considering I don't have unlimited funds.

So we started today. There were some things we knew we were going to buy, and today was really the only day we had to get that shopping done so we could get things going. We had to take the skids. They were/are excited because CHRISTMAS OMG WE NEED ALL THE THINGS!!!!!! I can handle that. DH actually did a great job not letting them buy all sorts of stuff.

What drove me nuts: "We need to get a TRAIN to go around the tree because mama has one." "We need to put colored lights on the tree because that's what mama has." "We need to put GIANT balls on the tree because mama says that's what everyone is doing this year." My internal ignore button was getting a major work-out. If only DH would have just said "we are going to have our own traditions and style" or something similar, but no, he pretty much told them we would do all of those things, because they want to.