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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Ours came down the day after Christmas. LOL They were only up a week!
Ours came down yesterday, Dec 30. Each year it varies. Sometimes it's the day after Christmas, sometimes not until Jan 2. We have family that leave theirs up until Epiphany which is Jan 6 I think. Of course our tree has been up since the day after Thanksgiving and it was definitely time for it to come down. :)
I'd drive you crazy, Diann. None at all this year, not even a wreath on the front door, and it was so very peaceful. No presents to wrap, meals to cook. Just quiet time reading.
Of course one year, many, many years ago, before Mel and I married, I knew he wanted a tree but didn't want to put it up himself, so I helped him put it up. It stayed up the whole year. We got married, and that tree was still up. So January the next year, who do you think had the chore of taking everything down? Me.
C, only up a week!? Really? Wow.
My tree goes up at Thanksgiving and comes down around New Years. I think I'll take it down this weekend.
Like you Di, I do have a bit of the "party's over, let's move on" feeling, but Christmas comes once a year and the tree is so pretty.
One year I left it up until the middle of January! LOL.
Happy New Year Girlswriteout. Love you all!
Rachel
Dave had surgery on his wrist and couldn't get the tree down from the attic. So it was only up a week. It was in his way to see the TV so it came down the day after Christmas. LOL
I haven't put up a tree for several years--because of the cats. But they're older now, maybe next year. Instead I have a 3' lighted (artificial) wreath which suffices. It went up Dec 1st and will probably come down this weekend, along with all the other little touches I added around the house.
It's kinda sad, too. A bit of a let-down after all the lights and garlands and tinsel is gone. Back to ho-hum-drum. :)
Happy New Year!
LOL, C. :)
Not on the wrist surgery, but on the tree blocking the TV. ;)
My tree came down today (NYE). It's always down by January 1st. Sometimes earlier than today. It was up since Thanksgiving weekend. Time to come down.
We put up our decorations on the first day of Advent. When do they come down? Varies from year to year. My husband and I just had this discussion five minutes ago! I want to take down the decorations on Sunday afternoon, but he wants to wait until 6 Jan. (Epiphany, Theophany). He feels stronger about this than I do...so I guess they'll stay up. (I even suggested doing rock-paper-scissors to decide, but he wouldn't go for it.)
P.S. I just looked up "Epiphany" on Wikipedia and found it interesting reading.
A day late to the party, but still fun to comment. My tree will come down today. I want my living room back to normal. As much as I love my ornaments, I'm getting that "Christmas is over...time for a new year" closed in feeling. So the plastic totes will be carted up the basement stairs, packed, and then stashed in the attic for another year.
I usually leave mine up until after Jan 1. After all, the twelve days of Christmas aren't over until Jan 6th, and since my birthday falls in there ... well I won't go there. The bills usually arrive on my birthday. This year, I'll take them down tomorrow. I didn't put much up, so it will be an easy task. Next year, I'll go back to the full regalia.
Ours go up the day after Thanksgiving, and come down the day after Christmas. Some years, I will leave the wreaths up on the doors until New Year's Day, but LOML helped this year and his enthusiasm had the wreaths down before I could say a word. Which of course, I didn't. ;-)
Diann:
When I used to go 'all out' and decorate, I tried to keep them up until after New Year's Day. I thought the room and all looked blah without the colors. I tried to have them down and away before our son's birthday, Jan. 7th. One year I forgot about a wreath hanging on a hook in the ceiling and left it up for a whole year.
When we were first married, I was sloppy about getting the decorations down. We had our first baby and I decided I should grow up. (some family members are fanatical about taking down the decorations immediately. I committed to taking down the tree and decorations the night of Christmas while he was asleep so he would definitely know Christmas was over. He's 15 and I've done that about 14 years.
I think there's something sad about dismantling everything, so I have shielded their eyes. sparing them from it. LOL!
This year, we were extra busy traveling to family dinners. Plus, they stay up later than I do now! I took it down two days after Christmas. I still did it when both kids were gone. I guess I'm more sentimental than I think.
I think of it as reclaiming my house. It seems so much more spacious with all of the decorations down.
I put them away the day after Christmas because that's what my Mom did. I like the idea of keeping each Christmas special by not having any carryover.
And my birthday is January 6th. Not so interested in the competition staying around.
They come down New Years Day!! I have to get my house back to normal:)
Fun to read all your comments! We've had company over the weekend (having a great time together!), but they're leaving after lunch, so we'll take our decorations down then. I've enjoyed having them up, but I'm ready to get back to normal. :-)
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