We finally bought our tree last Friday evening, but too late to do anything with it. Saturday the morning was hectic, just trying to get the room cleared and re-arranged a little so we could actually put the tree up. Well I then had a baby shower to attend at lunch time and got home to children begging to begin. James rounded up the tree stand, only to discover that with this tree being nine foot tall (the biggest one we have had so far) it would not fit in our little stand and we also were not sure what state last years lights were in, or if we would have enough, so off we had to head to the store.
Then it was dinner time, so we finally got the tree up and lights on it, Saturday night and left it at that. Sunday was crazy, we went from church in the morning, to James and the two older kids going to Thai Church where the kids also had their youth party. Then that evening was our church's Christmas party.
Each of the following evenings we let the children put a few decorations on the tree. It was adorable, all of the decorations were concentrated in the bottom quarter of the tree at their heights. We have gradually tried to redistribute them and I think, finally, Thursday evening, it is now finished, or at least as good as we are going to get it this year.
I took a few photos which aren't perfect. Due to the low light conditions, and not wanting to use the flash I had to use slower shutter speeds, so especially those with the kids may seem a little more blurred, but we think it looks lovely.
Asia thinks that the idea is to pull decorations off and bring them to us, so we are working on that! Bryttain is convinced it is her job to turn the lights on and off.
Of course, we still need to get the Nativities set up, wrap presents, clean, tidy...but at least headway has been made and it is starting to feel a lot more like Christmas.
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