Christmas extended

Our tradition has always been to live the 12 days of Christmas, and close the season on the 13th day of Christmas. The kids knew the song by the time they were 3 or 4. We also didn't start Christmas prep until after one of our kidss' birthday, which was Dec 20th. A few years we got free Christmas trees on December 23 or 24th, thanks to tree sellers anxious to clear their tree lot.

By the end of the 12th day the leftovers were all history, no more fruit cake, no more late Christmas cards, time to formally put the Christmas stuff away.

This is just how we did it, not a suggestion to anyone else. Partly that we didn't want to overlap a birthday celebration with Christmas. It became a year to year tradition, except for a bunch of years after that child died and we were able to defuse or distract from our sadness with Christmas at Grandparents or relatives. After a half dozen+ years of Christmas away from home we slowly resumed the old tradition.

You do know it should stay up all year if it’s not taken down before 12th night or it brings bad luck keep it up saves a job next December

The pies & your daughter will go a long towards cheering up your niece. But honestly, I would have done the same as her dad. Makes it more special when it's a fixed season.

[b] Awwwwwww! 💖💖💖 [/b] [c=359E00] Who doesn't love Christmas Trees! 🤩🤩🤩 Please tell your special gorgeous niece she has wonderful taste just like Santa and her loving aunts and loving cousin! 🎄🎄🎄 Christmas is about spreading love to everyone which you should do all year so why not keep the tree up if it makes her happy bless her heart sooo much! 😍😍😍 [/c]

What is unfair about taking down the tree? At least he was helping ..

Back in the 70's we had a neighbor that had a live tree planted in their indoor central courtyard, they would decorate it as a holiday tree each different holiday, not just as an xmas tree, for their kids.