December 2, 2006
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Christmas Catastrophe
Yesterday, our first full day back from D-land and I planned on using the day to get the house in order and decked out in Christmas. I was to host a breakfast this morning for 11 sisters and wanted the place looking nice. At 4:00 I was finishing up tree decorations and just had to take the boxes back out to the garage when….CRASH….down came the Christmas tree off it’s 3 foot table top perch, missing Rosie by a hair-broken ornaments everywhere. Rosie felt deeply offended and was wailing profusely. Brian was gone helping his parents move. At times like this I simply want to crawl in a hole and suck my thumb. Then to make me laugh says my silly Serra, “Christmas is over.” I laughed and had Serra take a screaming Rosie to a safe and glass free area while I cleaned up the carnage. I say carnage because of the dead gingerbread boys and girls. Our tree is of the plastic variety and it was the weak plastic base that bit the dust.
After cleaning up we headed to Target and found a real tree stand that I thought might work with the fake tree. I almost just bought a new tree but I REALLY didn’t want to restring lights or undo the ones I had already done. Also, those buggers are expensive. And we found some new ornaments to replace the broken ones. The new stand did work and after getting the tree standing I told Brian who had since arrived home that dinner plans had changed and we were headed out. I am thankful that we have that option. I know my mother would have given an arm at times to have been given that luxury on occasion. Since I didn’t have to worry about cooking and clean up I was able to get up the energy to redo the tree.
The house looks and smells festive and the breakfast was really nice this morning. I made Hootenanny pancakes and they were a smash hit. Brian didn’t get back with the girls for about an hour after the breakfast wrapped up and so I just sat back and enjoyed the quiet for a spell. When the girls got back they were terribly ornery and so I took them both upstairs and laid them in my bed and they both fell asleep. That was 2 hours ago and so I am enjoying another quiet spell. Pictures are being edited as we speak.
Comments (3)
Christmas is over! WE MISSED IT! You have a great sense of humor… I would not have found anything funny at all until years later and by then I would have forgotten about the cute saying… Wise, wise mother, you are…. Can’t wait for photos
You have a fake tree? Am I missing something. Do you really have a fake tree? That alone would be enough to claim christmas to be over.
Real trees don’t do so well in Las Vegas. They dry out too quickly. We had a real one last year in CA and it stopped taking water and the water that was already there went rancid and stunk horribly. I didn’t want to deal with that kind of stink this year..