I'm going to put my trees up today!

[curiousgeorgie]

My DD (3) has had a terrible bug, a horrible time having to leave nursery, and now has been struck down with a miserable cold!

Asking her what she wants and the answer is 'Christmas'.

Is this madness?

But ignore me. I think the beginning of Dec is too early also.

Yes, it's madness.
It is still November.
If she said she wanted a pony would you get one?

You don't tend to have a pony in your loft.

usualsuspect - that is a truly excellent point.

I'd put it up if I was you OP, but I am half woman/half elf I think.

I don't have Christmas in my loft either so I'm not sure what your point is.

My Christmas decorations live in my loft.

That's my point.

They will get horribly dusty.

A chain of fairy lights in her room and some card making perhaps, but too early for decorations.

Neighbours down the road have put up their decorations!

Ah theonewiththehair basically I get big bits of card (huge) and draw my decorations! I am midway through a Christmas scene (think father Christmas, sleighful of presents, snowy house, xmas tree, snowman, reindeer, stars, snow, holly etc etc) for the entire living room wall on one side so I needed to put them up as I go. Dd likes to help, and then iv got the normal decorations for my grotto house to put up (tree/tinsel/window decs/honeycomb decs/ lights wherever I can fit them, inside and outside) and THEN it's the snowman display and I have a full time job and am pregnant with 2nd dc so I can't go as fast as usual!

I am more than 50% elf

Yes.

You are bonkers!

I love Christmas more than anybody. I start to get excited in September, I love Christmas shopping, on Christmas morning I'm up earlier than the DC etc.

If I put the decorations up now I'd be wanting them down on the 1st December!

Decs were up at soft play today. Seriously.

Besides, when she said that she wants "Christmas", does she not mean that she wants actual Christmas Day when she gets all the presents?

She might be disappointed when you only put the decs up! :)

NannyPlum that sounds fab! I would love to be creative enough to do that.

I also think it's a bit early for Xmas decorations (apart from hand crafted murals). I saw people buying real trees in B&Q today. Without roots. Won't they be dead before 1 December?

Well, I compromised and decorated her playroom and put her tree up in there...

She's very happy and I can easily shut the door

Usual suspect you are a woman after my own heart

NannyPlum I am in awe!!

Haha DH isn't impressed I have enough christmas spirit for us both!

This is ridiculous. If I were your neighbour I'd be laughing at you.

I was considering this - so shoot me!

Rosen.. Why should OP care about the neighbour, pray?

Rosencrantz - first of all, I couldn't care less what my neighbour thinks. My 3 year old was happy and smiley for the first time in over a week, and that's enough for me.

And second of all, the playroom faces the back and there's a high fence in my garden, so I don't imagine they'd have any idea that there was anything to laugh at!