1. Dress in many layers so you don’t freeze at the farm with the cold wind.
2. Drop off the baby at a babysitters’ house.
3. Try to convince your toddler that picking out a Christmas tree will be more fun than playing with the babysitters.
4. Scold yourself for bundling up so much while chatting with the sitters and sweating.
5. Leave the babysitters’ house with their truck and no children.
6. Wander around the Christmas tree farm for a good 45 minutes before finally deciding to take one of the first trees you saw.
7. Praise yourself for having the sense to bundle up so much.
8. Cut down tree, put it in the tree shaker to get rid of all the loose needles, pay for tree, and load tree in truck.
9. While unloading the tree, make fun of yourself for still having a pumpkin on your steps.
10. Walk into house and realize you should have cleaned the living room before getting a tree.
11. Clean living room.
12. Put tree in the beautiful cast iron tree stand your parents gave you.
13. Look at the tree and realize something’s wrong.
14. After messing with the screws trying to straighten the tree, realize the stand is too big for the diameter of your tree’s trunk.
15. Take tree out of beautiful tree stand and place in small, cheap stand you purchased last year.
16. Pick up children from sitters’ house.
17. Go out for Chinese food so you don’t have to cook. (Side note: Kevin’s fortune cookie -- You will do well to expand your business. Mine -- Your dearest wish will come true. Chloe’s -- You have at your command the wisdom of the ages. Kevin really wanted us to have different fortunes. He said he should have had Chloe’s, Chloe should have had mine, and I should have had his. I was quite content with the way they were distributed.)
18. Put toddler to nap.
19. Give baby a tree branch to play with while you put up the lights.
20. Finish putting lights and garland on the tree and put baby down for nap.
21. Take a break so your toddler can help you decorate the tree when she wakes up.
22. Eagerly watch toddler try to put ornaments on the tree.
23. Wonder how she was able to put ornaments on the tree at both churches by herself, but she can’t manage to do it at the house.
24. Hand toddler new ornament after she finally gets the first one on the tree.
25. Tell toddler to pick ornament up off the floor after it falls off the tree.
26. Take a break to stand on your head. It might help the ornaments stay on!
27. Repeat steps 24, 25, 25, 25, 24, 24, 25, 25, 25, etc. until you’re no longer in the mood to decorate the tree.
28. Stop decorating and read a book instead.
29. Continue your day as normal.
30. Allow your husband to decorate the tree while you shower.
31. Help your husband put a few ornaments on the tree…but not too many.
32. Breathe a sigh of relief that it’s all over!
And yes, the tree still leans a bit, but there's only so much you can do to fix a crooked trunk!
2 comments:
A Norman Rockwell family picture it is not, but it is still a treasured memory. :) I am sure that the girls think it is the most beautiful tree they ever had.
Really cute, thanks for keeping us posted of the fun stuff. It means a lot when we can't be there in person, especially around the holidays.
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