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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Wasn't sure we were going to get a tree this year because we are going to be going on a big trip over the holidays but alas, we have an almost 5-year-old and we could deprive her of a Christmas tree so we got one, albeit a small one and you know what? Having a small tree was less hassle and more fun than a big tree!

After Thanksgiving had past I gave the green-light for Christmas to begin in our house. Although apparently, all the stores and malls got green-lighted the hour after Halloween ended. Since we are going on a trip we might as well get it up and get the house decorated in advance so we can enjoy it. So that is what we did.

Instead of doing some elaborate tree lot thing we just headed down to the lot in Target and because it was cold (for California) that night we basically popped in and popped out. It literally took like 10 minutes for us to go in, pick something out and for them to rope it to our car. We brought it home and hooked it up to our stand in a matter of 5 minutes.

Hubs brought it in the house and for once there wasn't a million pine needles strewn across the floor all throughout the house. There were some but not a ton. We decorated our tree fairly quickly too. Miss P is at an age where the entire concept of Christmas and all holidays completely and totally excite her. She loved helping me get the holiday bins out and loved asking me where to place things in our house. She loved decorating the tree even more!

I had to set aside my anal retentiveness and remind myself that not everything had to be perfect (I didn't have to slightly adjust a few things though...as I just couldn't help it). I do have to admit that all the Christmas-ing has been alleviating my poor post-election mood. So this event which I didn't even want to do this year turned out to be a magical night!

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