Christmas Time Is Here. Yippee

I love Christmas. The traditions, shopping , presents, carols, advent calendars, lists lists and more lists. I do, I am not kidding.

I have started decorating but I couldn't allow myself to start until I had done my marking. I got some help.

That slowed me down a bit.

First step in decorating the tree is to check the lights. I got some help.

That slowed me down a bit.

I got the tree decorated with minimal assistance but I apparently needed help moving the tree into place. Help consisted of SOMEONE who shall remain nameless getting behind the tree and examining the decorations while I tried to not squish her.

That slowed me down a bit.

Then it was time to sort out the other decorations. I got some help with that......

.... and the angel chorus is one less this year. 

There is a traditional Christmas tale in my family about how I trod on the lights EVERY YEAR no matter what precautions were put in place. I pooh poohed the story a bit until I got my own house and did my own tree. I have trodden on the lights every year. But this year I am announcing this piece of news to the world. It is a record breaker. The record I have broken is the number of years it is possible for someone to tread on the lights since they could walk. That record is now one year longer. Sigh. Now I have a set of lights on the tree that dont work because the bit I trod on was the connector to the adaptor. They dont like being bent. I am not taking the tree apart to take them off. My years of redecorating the tree 2 or 3 times to get it right are over....maybe. I suspect my helpful friend will do enough rearranging of decorations for both of us.

Ho Ho Ho ...... sigh.

Comments

[2paw]

Hi, I'm from the Cat Government and I'm here to help!! Cleo is SO helpful. I can't understand why you are not more appreciative of her obviously excellent efforts??? Well done on the record,: are you Big Foot then? Cleo posed very well too!!

[Michelle]

Your 'helper' seems to be getting right into the Christmas spirit.

I didn't tread on my Christmas lights this year, but I did get to play a long and rousing game of 'search for the one bad bulb in a string of five zillion that makes all the others go out'. Good times.