Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

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 ...

After an extensive decorating job for the girl's Little Mermaid party, I was not that excited to then have to deck the house out for Christmas but alas, it was almost getting to the mid-month range which seemed really late in my decorating book. Thankfully, some gust of creativity swept over me and I started to drag out the big Christmas tubs of decorations from the garage. I had energy to decorate but not to get the tree so Daddy took the girl and Moses out to the Christmas Tree Lot to pick out a tree. I must say, that for being alone with our two children he managed to get a quite pretty tree! I've amassed quite a few ornaments in my "classic old style" Christmas theme to provide full coverage of the tree hubs picked out. Here are the results!