Christmas Tree Stories

Twas a night in December when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The kids were all tucked in their beds warm and tight and hubby and I crawled into bed ready to call it a night.

When all of a sudden we heard a loud crash, not a sound you ignore and hope it will pass.

It was so loud that we sprung out of bed.

We hustled down the stairs where I was filled with dread.

The sight in front of me was a lot to take in.

The ornaments that were once on the tree, had scattered about and I wanted to flee!

The tree had tipped over, the ornaments broken, 

we were both quiet, not many words were spoken.

Hubby and I set to work, we uprighted the tree; the ornaments were sorted into piles of three.

One group was broken.

The other was fine, 

The last group however, required more of my time.

A few days later and a bit of glue, one would never guess what we had been through!

Do tell, have you had a Christmas tree tip over?

Up next.... this years tree story!

Embracing our Tree

Well, here I am.  Finally taking the time to sit down at the computer and get a few words out.  It's been a couple of crazy weeks ~ Thanksgiving travels, Hubby gone for a week, kid stuff, home improvements.  The list goes on and on, but finally I'm stopping to breath and do one of my favorite things.  Blog.

And since today is Thursday,  I thought I would embrace the camera.  And this is easy for me this week.  You see, last night we decorated our Christmas tree.  Christmas music was playing in the background.  The kids were arguing over whose ornament was whose and who got to hang up the next one.... it was pure loveliness.  No really though, besides the occasional, "No, that's my ornament, I get to hang it up."  and "Moommm, can I do the next one?" We had a fun time.

Once the tree was decorated, of course I had to break out the camera.  

First for a first look at the fully decorated tree

Then a couple in front of it

Sassy girl and I

Hubby and I

It was a fun night.  Full of reminiscing over ornaments (like the ones that were glued back together after the fully decorated tree tipped over a couple of years ago), enjoying the picture ones, seeing how much everyone has grown and of course personal ones ~ like Smileys favorite "Minnie and Mickey" ornament, Action's "Elvis" ornament, Sassy's ice skating ornament and the "Santa Clause" ornament I painted when I was in 8th grade ~ way back in 1989 :)

The Tree

The tree has been decorated.

And now we can just sit back and enjoy the warm glow from the lights.