Christmas really did sneak up on us this year, and I don’t feel prepared at all! We normally don’t get our tree so early, but we realized there are no other free weekends that we’ll have time, so we went ahead with our annual Tree Decorating festivities the weekend after Thanksgiving this year. After a trip to a nice restaurant with Mom & Dad for lunch, they went with us to the tree farm. We easily picked out our 6 ft. tree and took it home.
(I have a picture of each of the kids in their car seat at a tree farm every Christmas when they were babies. Abigail continues the tradition - only she stayed in the car because we parked close).
When we got home, Leah was so excited to decorate and asked a hundred times if it was time yet—especially when she found a tin of ornaments with her name on it and a Princess one inside! So we tried to keep her busy while Daddy got the tree in place and put on the lights. She loved the Nativity magnet book we have and for a long time kept herself busy by telling stories she made up.
Finally when it was time for the ornaments, Leah and Andrew were grabbing them from me faster than Daddy could help them put them on. They wanted all of them in the same place, of course, but we managed to make the tree look beautiful in the end.
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