Finally had a productive night of shopping. Mamma T and I hit the stores Friday night and I at least put a small dent in the list. Now that she is retired she is watching the daytime shows. She filled me in on the "hot" items of the year as reported by in the know TV hosts. Big, big help. Moving forward.
Sinus infection/cold that lingered for seven weeks is gone! It was pushed out by the stomach bug - nice. 48 hours of well, you know what. I think I am on the mend. At least it happened over a weekend. Although I did miss an actual social night out ~ haven't had one of those in weeks. Bummer.
Husband threatened that if I don't decorate the house he would. That is enough to light a fire under any woman's ars. So I dug in the bins and pulled out a few items. Does it really need to look like someone sneezed Christmas in here? I'm fine with the less is more approach. I do love all my new, sparkly, vintage touches. I'm not completely done but it's getting there.
Received confession from 7 year old. He's had no desire to send Santa a letter. He just "wants to be surprised". Turns out little man thinks Santa will remember his stretch of naughty behavior in school last January/February. I reassured him that sometimes Santa is nice and at least leaves edible coal. Suggested he indeed needs to send Santa a letter apologizing for bad behavior and promise to do better. He's not convinced, yet.
And finally, when the tree is decorated I completely take control and make sure all my special ornaments are front and center. When you think about it, probably not that much fun for the kids. This year I took a different approach. I kept the special ornaments packed up. Kids totally decorated the tree with the "other" ornaments and you can tell. On some branches there are multiple ornaments. In the process of decorating, several ornaments fell and broke. And then were hung on the tree. This is probably one of the most beautiful trees that we ever bought and it should be a show piece. It is and it isn't. And I think just looking at this tree and knowing it is a "kids tree" has helped me to get my Christmas groove back. Even if it still doesn't have a tree skirt on, yet.
Signing off sister, in good Christmas spirits,
Tracy
cluster of ornaments hung with care
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