You may not know this about me, but...

...my name is Tiffany Messer and I am a Thanksgiving lover.

I love, love, love EVERYTHING about this holiday!

I love the colors. I love the food. I love family getting together.

I love the desserts. I love the smell of the fall candles.

I love the books and poems I read to my class

(especially a story titled: A Turkey for Thanksgiving

by Eve Bunting). 

I love listening to the men talk about football.

I love savoring the last few days of my birthday month.

It makes me sad to walk into the stores after Halloween 

and see Christmas items everywhere.

I do not sing Christmas songs before Thanksgiving.

I do not like to talk about Christmas lists, decorations, or cards before Thanksgiving.

Where is all of the turkey love people?!?!

But I must say, the day after Thanksgiving I am in FULL CHRISTMAS MODE!!!

Happy after a successful Thanksgiving day, I woke up Friday morning singing Christmas carols!

I gleefully put away our fall items, and brought out the Christmas items.

Here's Keith hard at work shaping the tree.

Maddy did not like that I wasn't paying attention to her!

I snapped this picture of her jumping up on me,

trying to gain my attention.

So of course I had to take a tree-trimming break and snuggle with her!

Here is a picture of our fireplace

(notice the light up Snoopy, Amy?)

Here is a picture of our mantle so far.

Notice Maddy's stocking is turned to say this:

 We have never fed Maddy people food, 

and unfortunately after her dig through the Thanksgiving trash,

she had quite an upset stomach.

All.over.our.bed. (#2)

Hopefully by Christmas her stocking will say:

We still had more work to do, but it was time to call it a night.

'Tis the season bloggy friends!