We managed to keep her up long enough last night to put up her little tree, covered with sparkling birds and colorful balls. She’s sporting a nice little shiner from earlier in the day, but isn’t dwelling on that at all – not with this kind of excitement going on in her room. We should call this the practice tree. The little tree where you learn to “look, not touch”, before she graduates to the (still bare) living room tree. Actually, touching is allowed and encouraged. Just not grabbing and tugging until the entire tree topples over on you. It’s fun to squeeze a bit of Christmas into the nightly routine this week. And the temperatures are supposed to really drop today – of course! Just in time for me to put out the greenery and lights outside. It’s always driven me crazy to see people installing Christmas lights two weeks before Thanksgiving, but those are the same people that leisurely strung their fir boughs in the 70 degree sunshine, while I twist wire ties on with chapped knuckles in the 20 degree windstorm. Ahh, Christmas…
