So...the long awaited Christmas time is here. I love Christmas, I love the lights, the music, the shopping, the CHOCOLATE. It is a great month for me...in my mind. The weekend of Thanksgiving we put up our tree. My kids were disappointed because it is all gold. I love my tree it is my favorite thing we have to decorate for Christmas but my kids wanted a colorful tree. I would be happy to oblige them except for how expensive it is to replace all my all gold ornaments for colored ones and all my clear lights for colored ones. Oh well, I guess my gold tree will have to do. I don't think the color of our tree will affect what kind of gifts Santa will put under it.
This weekend I set to decorating the banister in our entry. Every year I put it up in pieces. The (fake) pine garland goes first, then the lights and then the bulbs, pine cones and bows. This is a very important place to decorate as this is where all our stockings get hung. This year I decided to make everything I attach to the pine garland permanent, except the stockings. We checked the lights, carefully counted out the bulbs and the pine cones to make sure they were evenly spaced and attached everything with cable zip ties. When the pine garland was finally up and looking great we plugged the lights in...Alas, they no longer worked. After 4 hours of my hard labor, they DID NOT WORK!!! I cannot tell you my frustration. Hubby started searching for the problem, and the kids jumped in to help. Was it a fuse? NO! Was it a burned out light? NO!! Was is a short in the cord? NO!!! Do you think we can find any answer for why my lights won't work? Heck No!!!
Oh well, In my mind the lights are beautiful and next year when I go to put them up I will be sure to put in brand new strands of lights...and maybe I can put colored lights in the garland and keep my beautiful gold tree and that will make my children happy and me happy.
This year I will be sit back close my eyes and imagine the lights that are lining my banister and smile, spend time with my children and enjoy the music and the CHOCOLATE...And pretend it was a totally perfect Christmas...Until next year.
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2 comments:
hahahaha! you know it only happened because you tried so hard! next time act like you don't care! :)
would you update this thing...it's getting old. I think another 10 years has gone by. Love Ya
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