Puttin up the Tree

It is about time for a new post don't you

think!!! We finally got our tree up last

weekend. The girls were bugging me like

crazy, so Friday after school we got to work.

I love Christmas and I love my house when

it is decorated, but I hate the process.

Putting the tree up kills me!!! I apologized to

my kids before we even started, so they

would know that when I got frustrated it

wasn't because of them. I have one of those

trees that you have to fluff each branch and

put them in one by one.!! AHHHHH!!! It

drives me crazy, plus I am a perfectionist and

so the lights all have to be in the right place

and the ornaments in a certain order and

formation!!! Crazy I know, but that is the

reason setting up the tree makes me so

crazy! I will have to say that this year wasn't

so bad. I am surprised we even got it right

with following the directions from a 3 yr old.

And speaking of "fluffing", it was hilarious!!!

We told the little boss that we had to fluff the

branches before we put them on the tree, so

she grabbed a branch and squatted down and

made a lovely "fluffing" sound!!! Then she

handed it to me and said "Here, I fluffed it"

We all died laughing!!! My little bug even got

to participate!!! She didn't like touching the

tree so much but she did love dancing to the

Christmas music. She had to go to bed before

we got it all done, but she still had a lot of

fun. We started setting up the tree at 6:00pm

and we got done at 9:00 with a break in the

middle to eat some pizza and take a bath. We

all had a fun time. Here is a picture of the

girls before we started putting on the

ornaments.