Is it too early for Christmas Decorations?

My husband is in Iraq, and the kids and I will hopefully be in Florida (we live in NC ) for Christmas. Christmas is my FAVORITE time of year. We have traditions, like we always put our decorations out Thanksgiving night, after dinner. However, with daddy not here, I don't want to spring that on them all at once and make it a sad thing. So, I put up a tree yesterday (I always have about 5 trees) but instead of Christmas ornaments, I put fall decorations. Like fall leaf garland and pine cones and stuff. I plan to slowly bring in more decorations over the weeks, instead of just getting them all out like we usually do. Since we wont be here, and will not be able to do our after Christams ritual of taking it down, I was going to take them down before we left for Florida. What do you guys think? I'm not hanging up the outside lights just yet lol that can wait. I just want to make this as easy on the kids as I can. They are 11 and 8. Thanks so much!