Christmas Tree

Our tree is up, but we have however decided to get a artificial tree next year. Actually we might get two.
This year had us at Home Depot on a very cold evening picking out a tree. Left to the boys and me, this process can take quite a while. Daddy tried very hard to be patient and willing to pull each tree out and let us give it the "look-over". The cold weather helped to speed things up and we decided on a 7 foot (not too bad for $30).

We stopped on the way home and the boys picked out an ornament to hang. We started unofficially collecting these a few years ago and thanks to we decided to make it official. Austin picked out a Georgia Bulldog ornament; tap it and it hollers "Go Dawgs", tap it again and it plays the Georgia Fight song. Okay. Not my idea of a winter wonderland type, but it is not my ornament. Matthew picked out a cute one that shows Santa stuck in the roof of a house. His head is on one side and his bottom is haning out the other side.

 

I then had a case of brain dump.  I looked for my lights for almost an hour, going thru box after box of decoration only to realize that for some reason I had put them in my bedroom. The boys did help me look, in between asking every five minutes if they could just decorate it now.  Finally the lights are found and checked and put on the tree.  Then my next dilemma began.  The boys wanted to decorate the tree.  Our ideas of decorating the tree are somewhat different (i.e. I am a control freak).  However, I remembered how my grandmother always used to let me decorate her tree and how happy and proud I always was.

We could not work together on this (yes I have problems) so I sat back and smiled and let them take control.  The end result was two happy children and a relaxed mom.  Oh and a nice tree. 

My pictures are a little fuzzy...

We talked about it and decided that since the boys did such a good job, next year they could have their own tree to decorate - and I'll have mine.  :-)