When my 23 yo son was home for Thanksgiving, we baked cookies 2 nights, at his request. I couldn’t turn down that request.
We also cut down a tree while he was here, but didn’t get around to decorating it. Part of his enthusiasm was he has a GF he brought home.
I decorate the mantle with lots of things, and put kids Christmas pictures through the years on various tables. I have a ceramic tree I may or may not get out this year, and i will probably feel compelled to decorate the dining room a little if we eat any meals in there. I am definitely cutting back, and soon may relent and let my husband get the fake tree he keeps claiming he wants.