Christmas was over 12 days ago but my house still looks like elves threw up in it. This weekend I had every intention of taking down all the Christmas decorations and packing them away until next year but I found more important things to do instead, like lying around in my robe and watching movies. Now it is Sunday evening and although I have piled all the little Christmas tchotchkes like the Russian Nesting Dolls, Nativity Scene and miscellaneous mini-Christmas trees on the dining room table, my tree with all of it's 567,000 ornaments and embellishments is still standing elegantly-but-a-little-worse-for-the-wear in the corner of my living room.
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My dining room table covered in Christmas crap. |
Preparing my house for Christmas is always so much more fun than taking it all down. This year I decided I wanted to have my first "grown-up" Christmas tree. Since 1 (my daughter) was born while I was still a teenager, I've had kids all my adult life and have always decorated our Christmas tree with kiddie ornaments. Along with all the ornaments the kids have made at school and from the back of cereal boxes throughout the years we also had Santa Clauses, Angels, Barbie, The Dallas Cowboys, The Texas Rangers, snowmen ( a lot of snowmen) and a plethora of other cutesie, kiddie ornaments. While I have fond memories (well, mostly) of all the Christmases we spent as a family around the kiddie-ornament-filled tree, I wanted a more "mature" tree this year.
So, one Saturday in November Boo and I went shopping for all new Christmas ornaments. We started at a really expensive home accents store where each ornament was at least $5. Now that may not sound like much but I was envisioning my tree so completely covered in/with crap that you would barely be able see the actual tree (I'm gawdy like that sometimes!) and at $5 a pop I would only be able to get about 30 ornaments...at best. So Boo and I just pretended like we were rich enough to shop there, walked around with our noses in the air (like everyone else in the store...including the help. Puh lease!!) and took lots of pictures. (I did buy a few items when we found the 50% off clearance section in the very back of the store - we were the only ones shopping back there.)
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Me with my clearance finds at the Fancy Schmancy Store. |
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Fancy Schmancy tree at the Fancy Schmancy Store. |
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Another Fancy Schmancy tree at the Fancy Schmany Store.
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I spent the rest of that weekend and everyday after work that week decorating the tree. Hell, it took me almost 3 hours just to unpackage everything and cut it all apart! Finally, I made myself quit fretting over it because it was as close to perfect as it was going to get.
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My Fancy Schmancy tree! |
But now, almost 2 weeks since Christmas is over, the tree that I loved and was so proud of has become my nemesis. The beautiful twinkly lights have not been turned on since New Year's Day and the 1800 feet of gorgeous ribbon I lovingly wrapped around all 7 1/2 feet of the tree is starting to droop. I've lost at least 3 brand new star ornaments to Charlie's bored-at-home-all-day-but-won't-play-with-any-of-the-dozens-of-dog-toys-lying-around little ass and many of the other ornaments are not hanging where they were originally so lovingly and pain-stakingly placed. It's time for the tree to come down but I have absolutely no desire to take on the challenge. My new goal is to have everything down, boxed up and back in the attic by next weekend. We'll see, we'll see...
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