Christmas Decorating

I spent the afternoon putting up the Christmas tree.  Lots of digging through storage and dragging plastic crates up from the basement.  Then there's time spent sorting the various artificial branches by color.  And then, of course, there's the actual assembly of and decorating of the tree.  Meanwhile, Mark was busy grading, which meant I was entertaining the boys and keeping them out of Mark's hair.  Needless to say, I'm exhausted right now.

Incidentally, it's Nero's first Christmas with us.  That is to say, it's his first full season with us.  Nero came to live with us a few days before Christmas last year.  Now he's older and more independent, but still at risk for totally destroying the tree if he gets it in his head.  Case in point, the tree's been up about five hours and he's already managed to destroy one decoration.  There's still a couple weeks before Christmas and many more decorations to kill.  Fortunately, he's largely ignoring the tree.  Hopefully, that indifference will continue for the rest of the season.

Meanwhile, we're heading into the twelve days of Christmas.  I thought I'd welcome them in and end this post by sharing this Christmas welcome from the United Church of Christ:


Don't Let Them Lie To You from United Church of Christ on Vimeo.