One Long Christmas Season

It seems like so many people are taking down their Christmas decorations this weekend.  We didn't get the inside of the house done until about six days before Christmas, so I can handle a few more days of Christmas cheer.  However, Rick wants to keep the decorations up until his parents get here, which I believe is about the 15th of January and I am sure I will definitely want to de-Christmastize the house by then if not two weeks earlier.  Also, it is going to make it very difficult to clean the house with all of the extra chotskies littering every surface.  If it was up to Katie she would leave the decorations up all year.  Thank goodness she doesn't have a say so.  Anyway, wish me patience as I grin and bear Christmas until the middle of January.