On the Christmas tree, that is. Jim had to work late on Tuesday night, so before he left I got the tree in just the right spot and had him help me find the lights for it in the garage. After he left, I had the boy help me put up the stockings, and then I put the lights on the tree. In our house, I’m in charge of the lights on the tree, and I always do them the same way. First, a strand of white – non blinking. Then a strand of fancy colored lights on top of those – we’ve got the kind that blink 8 different ways, but my favorite is the slow fade. Very soothing. Ornaments will be tonight or tomorrow night. I have to do it in stages or I get sick of doing the tree real quick!
I didn’t use the stocking hangers I bought last year – instead I hung from them from our bannister, under the garland. And our doggie stockings are right next to our stockings on the grandmother clock.
I’d really like to go through the rest of our decorations and such this year and purge some more of it – there’s just so much stuff we don’t use. I do need to buy some new garland for our tree though. I had a really cool string of fake candy that looked like old fashioned candy…and it broke tonight. It had to be at least 20 years old…so I doubt I’ll find anything like it, but the tree needs something other than lights and ornaments. One year I had the kids make a construction paper chain, and that looked really neat…but I don’t think I want to do that this year. Maybe some wooden beads or something else that would be old fashioned looking. And no tinsel – I don’t do tinsel.
Yo. String popcorn. The kids will like doing that and it looks terrific on the tree.
Colleen, Joanns has garland that looks like candy plus half a dozen other types of garlands including wooden beads.
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I love the stockings going up the stairs – I may just have to copy you!
[...] I realized this morning that while I did post a picture of our tree, I didn’t post a picture of it once we finished decorating it! I know some people do theme trees, but not us. If anything, our theme could be called “family eclectic”. All of our ornaments have some meaning behind them. We have ornaments that were mine when I was a kid (including the gold Mickey Mouse I’ve had since I was little with my name engraved on it), baby ornaments for my kids, things that the kids made in school – it may look like a mashup to your untrained eyes, but I can tell a story about everything on the tree. When our kids grow up, they’ll get to take their ornaments with them, just like I took mine, to start their own Christmas decorating. [...]