My bah-humbugness from last week is lifting. This past weekend I got my tree up and decorated. Seeing the colorful lights on a daily basis is helping. I don't usually get my tree up this early, but it feels like time is passing so quickly...if I didn't do it now, when?
Of course, the kids are over the moon. The only problem is that they can't. stop. touching. everything! Alex & Ava seem to think that some ornaments are toys. Dorothy and Mary are their favorites. Also, the snow globes get rearranged daily. Like years past, I went with a candy colored christmas. Most of the ornaments on my tree have some sort of memory. My grandmother started giving me an ornament every year when I was a baby and has continued that tradition with my own kids. I still hang the clothes pin reindeer I made in 1981 along with the glass icicle ornament I bought the weekend before my wedding. Sometimes I change things up by adding something new, but at this point, I have so many ornaments there isn't much room for that. I thought about not hanging my pom-pom garland this year, but I couldn't help it...the pom-poms are still in.
On Friday night we got a surprise. It didn't compare to last year, but we got snow. This is quite a rare thing in south Louisiana. And now we've had a taste for 2 years in a row. Amazing. Of course, it will be in the 70's later this week. At least now when it doesn't feel like christmastime outside, it will look like it inside.
