Noooooo! Not the TREEEEE!

Ahahahhahawaaaaaaaaaah. Sob. My tree fell over. Picture it. A fifteen foot tree. Laden with ornaments both glass and cheap, and plastic and expensive all crashing to it's doom. Nobody underneath it, thank heavens, but crashing nonetheless. Sob.
I am on my way to scouts. I am just turning around to face the door when the tree comes crashing to the ground. Nobody pushed it. It just suddenly became possessed and fell.
sob.
IT TOOK ME TWO DAYS TO DECORATE THAT STINKING, WRETCHED, POKEY,
cough. cough. ahem. Deep breath. Toothy smile and girlish giggle.
So there is something to be said about seven foot fake trees........

Ornaments tradition:

Twinkling, sparkling, spinning, singing....we've got them all. Dave brought the tradition of keepsake ornaments from Hallmark to our family. Every year we go to Hallmark crown and choose an ornament. They are so clever and fun. This years picks:

• Dave picked a Peanuts ornament with snoopy and four or five woodstocks in a canoe
• Kirsten picked a soldier at his post, made entirely of plastic, but in the shape of a little gingerbread house (kind of looks like an outhouse) and he is made of gumdrops, and he is drumming away. It moves and makes drum sounds. So cute.
• Katelyn picked a retro toy-magic 8 ball that tells fortunes. Do you remember that toy?
• Scotty picked a cartoon style dog holding Christmas lights that sings "Bad to the Bone" when you push a button
• Kara Joy picked Hoops and YOYO, characters from Hallmark that she has loved ever since Sherrie forwarded me a happy Mother's Day ecard from Hoops and YO YO. In fact she has it starred as one of her favorite sites, and she goes there to watch the ecard previews. She loves them. On the ornament they have conversations of happy Christmas and such.
  
• Skyler picked a retro toy-Hotwheels car on one of those old orange plastic tracks they used to have

• Michael picked a Disney Little Einsteins rocketship with the characters inside.

So those are this year's picks! Last year I got a Madame Alexander doll ornament, Dave got a Peanut's choir ringing bells in a church, Katelyn got a fridge with Christmas dinner inside (it lights up), Scotty got Wile E. Coyote lighting the top of the tree with a star (in the position Tom Cruise takes dangling from a rope in Mission Impossible, Kara Joy got a rockem sockem robots toy ornament, and Skyler got a See n Say ornament and Michael got a naughty or nice meeter in a stocking ornament. Fun. Just a little look into that tradition for you.

WE GOTS DA FEEVAH

Boy is the Christmas fever running through our house. people are singing Christmas songs, wrapping presents, doing nice stuff for each other (once in a while. It isn't constant, so don't think it is perfect at our house) Anyway, the stockings are hung, the tree is done, the shopping is done, and I even made wreaths out of the tree remnants. Wow. We gots da feevah!

Do as I'm Doing...

Katie and Scotty were on the bed with Daddy as I was singing to Kara to put her to bed. Katie got this wild hair and all of the sudden began to roll like a steamroller while singing the primary song, Do As I'm Doing. Scotty for some unknown reason was on the same page, and began doing the exact same thing. They rolled over and over each other, singing that silly song. Do you know what they were immitating? Katie said they were being the arms that roll over and over when you sing that song. Random. Funny. Where do they get it?

Oh Christmas tree...

I have been so sickly.... poor me poor me. Okay enough of that. We got a really tall Christmas tree. I love it. We chopped that baby down from the woods and had to get a ladder to decorate it. But we used all our decorations this year, and it reminds me of when I was a kid. Mostly because the height from tree to person ratio is the same as when I was little. So it must be ginormous for the little kids at my house. but they loved climbing the ladder too. Come over and see it sometime.

Poor little waif...

A little background. This week has been less June Cleaver-ish and more Ritz crackers and easy cheese when it comes to dinner. (Not really that bad.) But enough bad to make me want to make sure I made a really nice dinner for the kids and dave tonight. SO I did.
After dinner, Skyler, who is three, walks in my bedroom and says in his
three year old voice, "Mom, I want ceeyal." Which is to be interpreted, Mother dearest, I would like you to pour me some cereal.

I said, "Skyler, how about some more chicken, or broccoli, or rice?"
to which he replied, "BUT MAAAHHHHMMMMM, I STARFING!!!!!"
So I gave him cereal. Just a funny.