I took this picture about five minutes ago. I have many reasons for not taking my tree down yet. First, I wanted to enjoy it a little while longer. I spent about 50 hours this Christmas season either rehearsing for or performing in the Christmas program at my church. As a result, I was not home many evenings to curl up on the couch and just enjoy the twinkling lights.
Second, my son decided we needed an angel on top of the tree. When we put the tree up this year, I put on the bows I made for the tree the first year Jason and I were married.
He looked at the bows with disappointment and said, "Why don't we have an angel?"
In his mind, ALL Christmas trees should have an angel. I replied to him, "Mama and Daddy didn't have a lot of extra money when we first got married, bows were cheaper than an angel."
In other words, we were fresh out of college, had recently bought a house and our big purchase for Christmas that year was the Christmas tree and lights.
He looked at my incredulously with wide eyes and said, "We need an angel."
I planned to look during Christmas for an angel. After the program, I got sick, sick, sick. My daughter shared the cold she caught during the program. A week after Christmas was over, I finally felt back to normal. I knew my chances of finding an angel a week after the post Christmas clearance were slim. We were in Hobby Lobby, so I took a stroll down the Christmas clearance aisle just to see if there were any angel tree toppers left. Low and behold there was only one. It was pretty much what I envisioned in my mind. I asked my son if she fit the bill and he was thrilled. He begged me to leave the tree up a little while longer with the angel on it. So, instead of taking it down New Year's Day, I left it up.
Thirdly, I started looking at all the ornaments on my tree and started dreading wrapping them up, putting them in their individual boxes and then fitting the boxes into another box like a jigsaw puzzle. My family knows that I put gold and white ornaments on my tree. In the last 11 years my collection has grown through gifts from various people. I have a lot of ornaments now. I was playing the idea of getting an ornament box to store them in. My Mom found two ornament boxes yesterday, on clearance! They are sitting next to the tree now calling to me.
Lastly, I still have presents under it. We are doing Christmas later in the month with our Alabama family. If I take it down, I just have to stack the presents in the corner. But, I'm out of excuses, I must take the tree down today.
I love December because I get tons of cards from people I know and love. I didn't do a card or letter this year, sorry y'all. I love everyone else's and enjoy looking at them over and over. I attach them all to a string I wind around my stairs. I haven't been ready to take that down either.
I mentioned last week that my husband was working to install lifts for our bikes in the garage, here it is! He finished it the night I blogged about it. Good man, he is a very good man.
I love it. I used it last week for the first time when the kids and I rode our bikes to the park for a play date with half my daughter's school.
Finally, I just have to post these pictures that are too cute for words. We have a play castle in our backyard that was our first home improvement project. My friend Sarah calls it the Tower of Nerddom. It is a two story, octagonal castle. My father-in-law, the carpenter, my mother-in-law, the geometry teacher and my husband, the engineer turned finance guy, built to collaboratively. They were working out complex math problems to figure angles and such. I sat on the porch and stayed out of the fray while they worked. I can make it look cute, but I have no interest in trigonometry. Thus, the name, Tower of Nerddom. It pays to be nerdy! My kids love it. My husband and daughter played Uno out there the other day.
Another fun picture is of my son and his Legos. He loves his Legos. He is making Lego creations right now. These are from Monday.
When I started blogging today, he was working with his K'nex until he saw the Lego pictures I was uploading.
Finally, who can resist this picture? I think he was pretending to be a bear police officer. I'm so glad we are not starting him to school in the Fall. I am not ready to give up this cuteness quite yet.
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