O Christmas Tree 2017

It was a team effort, but our Christmas tree is up!

The Webmaster had to work on Saturday morning, but stopped off at the local farmers market (which opens to sell trees and greenery in the Christmas season) to pick out a tree.  He brought it home, put it in the garage to dry off a little during the day, and then he put it up in the living room after the boys went to bed on Saturday night.

By Sunday afternoon, the kids were ready to tear into the boxes I was bringing in from the shed and start decorating.  The boys had to wait a bit when I ran out of lights, and the Webmaster and Ane made an emergency run to Target for another strand of LED lights.  (The tree this year is a Fraser fir, and is a little “fluffier” than last year’s Noble fir, so another string was needed.)  But once the new strand got home and was put on, the kids opened “their” box of ornaments, divided them up, and went to town.

Now, you would think that the kids working this hard would mean less work for the adults, right?  WRONG.  As I told the kids when we got started, I reserved the right to move any ornament as needed.  The boys are still getting the hang of not sticking the heaviest ornaments on the tips of branches.  There was a lot of moving and suggesting going on.

Thumper, as usual, showed zero interest in putting his own ornaments on the tree, so I hung his.  Fortunately, he doesn’t have that many.  And as usual, each kid got a new ornament to add to their collection.

I started with the youngest first, and Thumper got a Cookie Monster Santa ornament.

Rerun got a Minion ornament.  He’s actually made the effort to learn their names, so when he got it, he yelped, “LOOK, I got Dave!”

Tad had been dropping heavy hints about HOW MUCH he wanted the LEGO Batman Movie ornament he’d seen.  Well, he was not disappointed.

And we surprised Ane (who assumed she was getting a different ornament) with a glass gingerbread-style TARDIS.

And the Webmaster and I got to hang up a very special ornament – special to us, anyway.

The Webmaster is now thinking that when we have a second smaller tree (someday), it should be baseball-themed instead of Peanuts-themed.  I am open to negotiation.

And I invested in some new plastic icicles this year (I still have the glass ones that I bought when the Webmaster and I first got married, but with rambunctious kids in the house, this is a safer bet), and I love how they look on the finished tree:

Now, to get the rest of the decorating done so the boys will stop bugging me!

This entry was posted on Monday, December 4th, 2017 at 12:53 am and is filed under Children, Holidays.
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