11.30“If I can’t *find* a reindeer, I’ll *make* one instead.”
I know Thanksgiving always gets the shaft, much like children born in late December, but seriously, I’m so excited for Christmas this year!
We’ve never done much for the holidays in the past; nobody was ever really home since we all had family to visit. A few years ago, I started putting a little mini-tree on our kitchen counter, complete with lights and mini ornaments. We would crowd our presents around the tree and call it done. And that was really all our decorating consisted of.
This year, however, is our first Christmas in our house so I decided we needed to get in the holiday spirit. As a surprise for my husband, who was enjoying subzero temperatures on a business trip to northern Alaska, I went out and bought a pre-lit Christmas tree ($35 at WalMart!) and a bunch of ornaments from IKEA. Lobsterclaw helped me get it assembled and decorated; it’s no Martha Stewart tree but it’s ours. (Pictures coming soon.) I also went to the dollar store where I picked up some cute stockings. (Which I hung on the side of my Expedit bookshelf thanks to those 3M hooks, which are amazing.) We have some more personal and sentimental ornaments to hang up and holy hell, did you know tree skirts are expensive?? but the tree is officially up.
(That’s what she said.)
(I’ve been watching the first few seasons of “The Office.”)
The decor will be rather sparse this year as I’m building up my collection and we don’t have anything hung on our walls just yet but it’s a start!
Is anyone else looking forward to the holidays? Or am I the only one??
I was looking forward to Christmas, but then my whole family decided to put their asshats on and now I don't really want to have anything to do with it. ::sigh::
I am superduper excited for our own decorating and celebrating the advent season with Kitten, now that she *really* gets it.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Haha, yes, having a kid-safe tree is important, at least until he's older!
I try to stay away from the typical glass ornaments anyway; they deteriorate over time and I'm always afraid they might break while in storage. It can't be helped with older ones (like my husband's 1st Christmas ornament) but moving forward, I try to get more durable ones.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Bah, screw the asshats!
I hope you'll share some of your Christmas stuff! You're so crafty.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
We already broke a Hello Kitty ornament.
LN's favorite, too. I can't wait until Christmas this year!!!! Our first (DISNEY) cruise! Yay.
Aw. The first *real* Christmas tree at your house… congrats! Post some pictures!
November 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Our first tree came from Walmart too.
We put our tree up this weekend: no ornaments from 1m down, and all the ones on the tree are plastic, paper, or wood. (Grabby boys and all, you understand.)
November 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I was gonna have my first tree, but I don't have much to put under it, so the Charlie Brown tree will be back this year. Hope to see pictures of your tree!
December 1st, 2009 at 4:02 am
I am definitely looking forward to Christmas this year – largely because I get to be with my family, who live too far away
December 1st, 2009 at 3:13 am