After Thanksgiving and heading for Christmas

So Thanksgiving weekend is over.  Now it is time to pull out all the Christmas decorations, cards, wrapping paper and most of all Christmas music!  I wait all year to listen to my collection of Christmas CDs.  I love them.  I admit I get withdrawels in July and sneak a listen to Bing and Nat King Cole.  I just cannot resist Manheimm Steam Roller.  I believe I have all of their Christmas albums.  I have two of some of them.  My friends and family keep me supplied with the newest every year and I am so grateful.  Having listened to my Grandmother, I keep the duplicates in case the first one wears out, or our country is invaded and we cannot get new copies any more.  I am prepared to have music for the rest of my life while I trim the tree.
Speaking of the tree, I now have an artificial tree.  Yes, I like a real tree better also.  I always had a real one also until the year I could not afford one.  A dear friend loaned us a small fake tree and it was the first time I did not have bronchitis leading into pnuemonia right after Christmas in years.  I have had a lovely faximily of a tree since and have discovered that I enjoy breathing easily even more than "real" Christmas trees.  They don't seem to bother me in other folk's homes, they just don't want to live with me.  I have had the same experience with a couple of roomates.  Lovely when they lived elsewhere.
I think the tree will go up tomorrow.  Then it will begin to feel like Christmas.