The Real Reason my Christmas Decorations are Still Up

Sydney in her favorite holiday spot.  Under the tree is the perfect place to hide,
stage ambush attacks and look adorable. 
How can I take down the tree with that face so clearly happy it's there?

There is always a bit of a let down when it comes time to take down all of the Christmas decorations.  For a month your house has been decorated and festive. Everything is shiny and glittery.  After you put the decorations away everything goes back to being mundane again.

I tend to put my Christmas decorations away a little after other people and it is only partially because of laziness.  I wait to put decorations away for when I am in the mood to solve puzzles.    Every time I put Christmas decorations away I have to deal with the frustration of trying to get the things that came out of one box to all fit back in that same box.  It in no use labeling boxes with which Christmas decorations are in them because when you pack everything away the next year the boxes inevitably won't contain the same things because they inexplicably won't fit in the box.  And the thing is some times there ends up being more room in the box so I can add more decorations and sometimes only three things will fit in the same box. My guess is that much like the dryer sock elves there are Christmas decoration box elves secretly changing the dimensions of the storage boxes from one year to the next.