Hola friends, family and those of you who feel the need to check up on me,
I am stealing this idea from another friend and I thought it looked like a fun idea! (thanks Rach) I am hoping that I can stick to this and add a little something each day - I always have great intentions for this kind of thing and then it quickly fizzles out like a can of soda left sitting on the end table...who ever takes a can of soda but says to themselves "I just want a sip, I will leave the rest of it to throw out tomorrow when its beyond consumable"? but nevertheless it still happens! Today we woke up to snow! I am not snows number one fan, I wouldn't even say I am on snows friend list, but it does help to bring on the holiday cheer. Isabella on the other hand has been jumping out of her jammies all morning long anticipating building that snowman, sledding....you know all of those magical things that are rather improbable in 4 inches of snow! If there is one thing I can say for my child, she is tenacious! By God they DID build a snowman - or should I say JAKE built a snowman, every time I looked up all I saw was Bella's boots and her face planted in the snow eating it...I know I should have discouraged this and at one point I could be heard shouting "BELLA NOT THERE THATS WHERE THE DOG POO POOS"! but she was just so cute and lets face it from here on out there isn't much pretty or clean about snow....so maybe she got it out of her system...
Today, after lunch we will finish putting out our Christmas decorations. Everyone is pretty excited! We have started a new tradition of a "Theme tree" this actually was introduced to me many moons ago by my dads girlfriend, Charlotte, who has done many, many different theme trees over the years - to the point of having to promise Dad that this year she will go traditional (now if only she had traditional ornaments!). She has had some good ones too! One year she did a money tree (both fake and real bills folded in origami fans), an orange tree (my favorite) where she had sliced oranges and gold bows hanging on the tree, it was really quite beautiful! Another cool idea was when she made elephants (like far east style) and everyone who came to the house to visit sat down and got to make and decorate and elephant to add to the tree - very fun! Last year was our first theme tree. We decided on a Domo tree (google him, very cute) and this year we will do 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' Jack Skellington theme! Its one of our favorite movies and we love to craft our ornaments! This year air dry clay and sharpies will be our medium!
I love doing this! Its brings us all together by all having to decide on one theme and then working together to execute! I will definitely post pictures!!
I suppose that this should be where I sign off as I have a 4yr old who is growing increasingly impatient for lunch and decorations! Thank you all for spending a few minutes with me and my random thoughts!
Peace & Love
I can't wait to see pictures of the tree! I wish I could be that creative! Every year on Christmas Eve we give our kids (and ourselves) each an ornament based on whatever they were in to that year...my hope is that when they are old enough to move out they will have plenty of ornaments for their first few trees and some fond memories to go with them.
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