NO!

My dear friend Sue (www.urbanlittlehouse.blogspot.com) said that each year her church chooses a word for Advent.  This year it is "NO".
It encompasses all that they are not going to do this season in order to celebrate the real reason for Christmas.
I'm trying to adopt it in my own Imelda Marcos fashion.
Today Papa Joe and I are beginning to schlep out the Christmas decor. 
We're choosing to use our accumulation of finery and not buy anything new in spite of all of the HGTV programs that have boggled my mind with darling ideas.  Anyway, I'm still pouting over HGTV not giving me that condo in NYC!

Artwork from http://www.sarahminson.blogspot.com/

I read an article that said a Christmas tree becomes an autobiography of our lives over the years.  So take that Candace Olsen.