Tuesday, December 11, 2007

O Christmas Tree


Look at our cute little tree! It is up on a table where BR cannot reach it, or eat it, or pull it down on top of his head... the kids LOVE it and decorated it with the homemade ornaments they made with Grandma "Gaga" D.'s help.
Naturally, this was a totally effortless endeavor: get (fighting, screaming) kids' jackets and shoes on, get them and carseats buckled in, arrive at store to buy tree, unload kids into stroller, sling, etc., start walking toward store, realize forgot wallet, reload everybody, go home and get wallet and snacks to sustain us, go back to store, try to act casual about A.'s black eye, buy tree, come home, move furniture around, set up tree, find decorations, locate more decorations in storage, load up kids and boxes and take them up the stairs in shifts, keep BR from gnawing on strings of lights, and so on.
After everything was set up and I had explained and re-explained about Baby Jesus, the wise men, presents, shiny plastic ornaments, reindeer, Santa and traffic jams at the mall (and their proper relationships), L. realized something: "Wait a minute, Mommy! We don't have a chimney!"
Doh.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very nice tree. All I could think reading your post was - oh, lucky lady! She doesn't have to add hats, boots, gloves, scarves, coats and snot to the equasion... ok, maybe snot.
Kris

clairesd said...

yeah, we got plenty of snot here. But yes, I am SO happy not to have to pile on those layers, only to find that a glove/hat/boot has been lost, sometime between the time we stood up to get off the El and when we reached the platform. Argh.