So I found THIS blog post that I never posted for some reason. I guess better late than never.
Since Nathan worked special assignments while he was in Uganda, he still had several days of vacation left over. So he took the Friday before and the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving off so that we could clean, decorate and spend time as a family. Awesome time. Most of it anyway.
We spent our first few days cleaning and our evenings playing games in our fire-warmed living room, laughing and hopefully learning a little. And I had the opportunity to go to a favorite thrift store that's usually out of the way with my Mom on Wednesday because my awesome hubby not only said he'd watch the kids and clean but ALSO authorized another Christmas tree! We stopped along the roadside to cut greenery but mom felt so guilty about cutting the greenery, she kept twitching and watching for cars like a nervous teenager smoking pot along the roadside!
We've now got 5 full sized threes,one small tree, and two Charlie brown trees. After my recent acquisition, I've decided to let go of two of our scrubby medium trees. But I also branched out this year and decorated our two chandliers after a friend posted a pic of one on facebook.
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we pulled up all of the boxes of decorations from the basement tobegan decorating our individual trees. Unfortunately, when we opened one box, we discovered that the entire box had gone moldy, somehow overlooked in the great basement flood of 2011 on Easter Sunday. We spent a good two hours trying to clean ornaments, some irreplaceable because the girls had crafted them with photos. And that set us back time wise.
But we pressed on. The girls, now in possession of the white tree previously located in the dining room, opted for a color scheme of teal, white and silver. Sophia cracked me up because she wanted it to look perfect. I don't know, but I think she might get some of my Christmastime anal retentive nature! Nathan decorated his tree with manly, nature themed ornaments and I decked my tree in Hallmark ornaments I've collected through the years.
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