By The Wiz
Now I can officially decorate for Christmas. FABU.
Not that Thanksgiving wasn’t fun. I finally got my stuffing recipe despite my inlaws inabililty to locate it buried in their basement somewhere. You see, I’ve got friends who are willing to drive around and help me and pretend it’s not a big pain in the butt to do it. Good friends, you know. But it’s over now, and there’s no sense in looking backwards. Onward and upward, I say!!
Christmas music playing? Check. Decorations brought out? Check. Commence merriment.
Wait, I have no idea how to decorate this house. I finally got help with my last house, and got a handle on how to do it, and now i have to start over with this house? Eeek. Good thing I am like those super smart dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. You know, the ones who learn.*
Now, if I just knew where to get a good Christmas tree. Who can help me with this? YOU? PERFECT! FYI– We go fake all the way, baby. And I need a tall one for these ceilings. And I don’t care that we won’t be here on Christmas Day - I am HAVING a tree.
(My third grader has informed me that I am not supposed to begin sentences with the word ‘and.’ Stupid brilliant child.)
So I am all set to clean up the Thanksgiving carnage, and bring out the Christmas carnage. I will be decorating while my husband is outside rototilling the yard and trying to learn how to make grass grow in Arizona. Have I mentioned the weather lately? Dreamy.
*(I stole that from somewhere, but I don’t remember where. But I didn’t want to get accused of plagiarism, so I’m adding this)
My kids are asking to put up the tree, I’m trying to clean up thanksgiving and figure out how to get lighted garland to stick around the outside of my front door at the same time as I’m trying to recover from my early morning trip to Target. Wow that was early!(and cold!)
Comment #1 by BNovember 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 amWe got out our Christmas stuff and I have no idea how to decorate this house either. So mostly everything is strewn about and it looks like someone blew up a Christmas decoration store. Oh well, at least the cats are having fun climbing our big (fake! yay!) tree and playing in the boxes.
Comment #2 by KrisisNovember 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 amI got out a nativity set yesterday. DH promptly put it back into the garage. Whatever.
Comment #3 by Heather O.November 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 amWell, if you still lived in Utah I could tell you a whole lotta places to get a really tall tree.
Are there any Costco’s in Arizona?
Reed spent the day rototilling dead leaves into our garden. Great minds, eh?
Comment #4 by Tammy and ParkerNovember 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 amWe put out our Christmas stuff today too. It was really fun. I’m not quite ready for any of the other stuff though - Christmas cards or buying presents or anything like that…
Comment #5 by SueNovember 23rd, 2007 at 3:44 pmI tried. I really, really tried.
The tree is technically UP, but, well, that’s about it.
Comment #6 by Tracy MNovember 23rd, 2007 at 6:39 pmThanksgiving was early this year–I WISH I WAS ON THE BALL. I love decorating the house.
Comment #7 by yvonneNovember 24th, 2007 at 2:32 amJust a note for anybody who has been avoiding buying toys from China for Christmas. The majority of artificial trees are also made of polyvinyl chloride in China, and therefore it is possible that they contain lead. Not that I think it’s likely that your children will be sucking on your Christmas tree.
The National Christmas Tree Association has an amazingly anti-artificial-tree game on their site called Attack of the Mutant Artificial Trees. Very whack-a-mole-ish. I had to play it, simply because it was so incredibly biased that it made me laugh.
I woke up yesterday morning wanting a big tree. DH doesn’t much like the mess from real trees, so I researched artificial trees (and found out both about the PVC and that the ones I like are definitely out of my price range this year). After getting horribly discouraged and not knowing what to do for a tree at all (other than using my small 2″ artificial dollar store tree that I’ve used repeatedly over the last several years) I decided to just give up on the issue for right now and make myself some ornaments instead. So far I have a jellyfish and a starfish. Not very Christmas-y, but fun to make anyway.
Comment #8 by kaduseyNovember 24th, 2007 at 6:54 amChristmas tree is up here! Decoations are all out and about, it is looking festive and we even went and saw the production of White Christmas that is in previews up here.
Comment #9 by HollieNovember 24th, 2007 at 7:25 pmIf I put a tree up now, it’d be dead two weeks before Christmas.
Comment #10 by Susan MNovember 25th, 2007 at 5:05 amI love decorating for Christmas, but this year I can’t because we are moving just a few days before the big day. I’m so thrilled. No messing with ornaments, baking cookies, etc. Then we’ll spend Christmas with the families who have decorated and I get to enjoy it without all the work.
Comment #11 by TiffanyNovember 25th, 2007 at 8:23 am