Decorating the Christmas Tree

I don't know about the rest of you, but every year, we test the patience of our marriage and we decorate the Christmas tree. It seems so fun, until we start to put the lights on. This year, we had minimal problems in comparison to years past. It took a lot of work to actually get the tree in the stand and to make it straight. We only had to put the lights on the tree once, but each strand of lights had to have bulbs replaced in order to get the whole strand to work. Usually we'll check the lights before we put them on the tree, they'll work, and by the time we get them on the tree, only half the lights would work and we would have to take the lights all off again. You would think we would learn from year to year, but each year it is a stress just to get the lights on the tree. After Christmas, I did buy some new lights that should all work from the beginning. We'll see!

The boys helped put the ornaments on and were excited to hang up "their" ornaments and to hear where each of them came from. We only had one broken ball and all the rest was safe.

While we were decorating we enjoyed some eggnog with sprite and some Christmas treats. It was a pleasant evening and it was gorgeous when we were finished.