Greg, Allie and Julia decorated our new Christmas tree tonight while I did a mountain of dishes at the other end of the house. That's one of the things I like the most about our house--that the entire back side is our active living space. Living room, dinette, and kitchen, all on the sunny side of the house.
So I could glance over at any time and see what so-godawful-ugly-and-I-thought-we-threw-it-away-years-ago ornament that the girls were exclaiming over as pretty and placing in a prominent place on the tree.
The evening wasn't complete until both girls had brief crying spells, which wouldn't have been so bad except that Greg picked up the video camera and filmed them sobbing. Julia dropped a glass ornament and cried, and Allie was too afraid to come close to the running vacuum cleaner to pick up an ornament hook so Daddy yelled and she cried.
The tree looks great and Greg bought our first Christmas gift for someone when he ran to the store tonight. So now all we have to do to be ready for the season is buy the perfect gift for everyone we know in the world, attend numerous holiday functions (including some food preparation), take the girls to see Santa, make and decorate Christmas cookies, figure out exactly when we're traveling for the holidays, and write and send Christmas cards.
Oh, I'm sure that last one doesn't have a chance of happening. I haven't sent Christmas cards for probably four years, unfortunately. We do wish everyone a happy holiday however!
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