today was a special day for us. and tons of fun. this week we've been dragging all of our christmas decorations out of the basement and piling them in the front room in preparation for the weekend. we started off the day with "breakfast with santa"
at st. brendans. it was a fun morning full of flying pancakes, sausage and photos with good old saint nick. on the way home we headed over to the hallmark store to get annabel her very first christmas ornament. a pair of tiny little booties. they are almost as cute as she is. :) by the time we actually made it home, she was huuuungry. so we fed her and put her in her swing for a nap. (on a side note, her swing was something that we kept trying to use but every time we put her in it she got even fussier than before. couldn't figure it out for the longest time and then one day we turned up the speed. and it worked! apparently the slow swing just bored and irritated her and she's a baby that needs to live in the fast lane...) anywho, while she was sleeping we took advantage of the time and got to decorating. we worked together to assemble our tree and then cheryl focused on the nativity while i put the lights on. cheryl gives me this job because messing with the lights "irritates the heck" out of her. she is determined that if we get a new tree it will be a prelit one. but then i'm not sure what i would do...this would probably force me to take over the supervisory role. :)
so with the lights on the tree, the nativity set up and our stockings hung with care (all done with the little drummer boy playing in the background on the radio), it was now time to hang the ornaments. our main tree has a very simple look to it. we've got a few boxes of red and silver balls that go up and that's it besides the angel topper. fortunately we bought a short tree a few years ago when we lived in the duplex so that will probably become our "ornament tree" for all the items that we've collected or been given and that our kids will begin mass producing once they can operate the bottle of glue and the elbow macaroni. once we finished the tree we hung up the mistletoe and officially completed our day of decorating (with a smooch to test it out of course - it worked...).
after our day of decorating the house we realized that we had made no plans for dinner. so another christmas tradition was born...chinese food! and how appropriate that cheryl's fortune (which was not really a fortune at all but still appropriate) was "happiness makes a home." it's not the tree, ornaments, stockings or mistletoe that fill our home with joy. its the time that we can spend together and our love that makes this a happy home...(awww).
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