Ben had a much better weekend than the events late of last week. I took Friday off and got much done, got the house cleaned (which not surprisingly always help me get my groove on), and over the weekend we got both the inside and most of the outside decorated. I also had a evaluation meeting with Project Enlightenment which is a post later this week Ben was totally into getting up the tree this year. Everytime we pass a tree lot, Ben asks to stop so we can look at the trees. While we were out of the house at soccer, Bill got up our fake tree along with MORE cleaning in prep for the new CARPET Friday!!! I'm telling you after 18 years of going with my dad to an actual Christmas tree farm in Pickens, SC to cut down our own tree phoning it in with a fake tree is much easier. My childhood friend recently brought up on Facebook how the Hendricks family tree had some massive bare patch, had to be tied off the the wall, and best ever had a hornets nest that then filled out house with the smell of RAID.
Just for the record this SAME friend has been in two wrecks in her life, both with my mom. While Bill was at the gym later that day and Ben got up much earlier than expected from nap, we turned on the fireplace, started a big crock of soup and homemade bread cooking, and started decorating the tree. As you can imagine all of ornaments that Ben hung were all put at eye level in a 1 foot space. That was when he wasn't pulling them off to play with them. I think if I heard the hot wheels "music" on his 2009 chosen ornament once more I was going to hid it, actually I did yesterday. I also later found 2 robot ornaments in his bed.
I love that our tree is filled with ornaments made my 10 year old Billy Vinson or 2nd grade Heather Hendricks. These are the ones that mean the most to me year after year. No Hallmark ornament can top this monstrosity I created as a Brownie. Want to date those suntan brown pantyhose? I'm thinking
1982 We are shooting for a much more positive week, armed with the evaluation input and a commitment to finishing off the cleaning, sanding, painting in the new bedroom before the carpet installation. Tomorrow, out comes the holy grail of outside decorations, a lighted animated polar bear I totally forgot I got on clearance last year. I can't wait to surprise Ben and Bill. And to think I almost bought a race car inflatable on Black Friday!
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Cracking up at the homemade ornaments. Isn't it awesome seeing how much joy the kids get out of Christmas? Our "singing" ornament is a Santa wearing a black leather coat and shades in a little red convertible that plays "Little Saint Nick." We also have a plastic, battery-operated snow globe with snowmen and a little fan that blows snow all around and plays about 10 different Christmas tunes. That's a great one, too. Ugh. Hiding is a good idea! I hope the boys love the polar bear! One year I'll convince Ed (my Jewish husband) to do animated yard ornaments. :-)
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