Our Tree

So, in between all the soap opera drama of the house buying, mother moving and surgery, puppy parvo having fun, we DID put up our Christmas Tree. It was a fairly low key event and we let the kids do most of it while *I* tried to not say anything. It's a tree with no rhyme or reason and they LOVE it. The bottom third has hardly no decorations with the logic from the 6 year old that the cat would play with them. The top third is also bare because they are still too short. But that middle section. WOW. It is festive.

We're going to do our traditional gingerbread house this week or weekend sometime - which is good since Christmas is less than a week away!


We also too the kids to Bass Pro because they offer free pictures with Santa. I have yet to get a GOOD picture of the kids with Santa. Never ever has this happen. The Boy has been particularly reluctant the last few years and before that This Girl was animatedly resistant. This is the picture (after 4 tries in 5 minutes at that) they managed to get of them this year. Yes, this is the *good* one.

The world may be falling apart around them, but it's still Christmas Time for them and we have to play along despite the want to roll around and ignore it. They don't know about the rest of the dramatic sagas and they shouldn't have a craptastic Christmas because the Hag of Hecktosville can't figure out how to file paperwork or the accountant's assistant is a nimrod. So.

Enjoy the kids joy of the simple things like decorating a 1/3 of a tree and putting icing on dried out crusty gingerbread and licking it.  There are many who won't this year.