O' Christmas Tree

First of all, I am sorry that I haven't posted anything for a while. I am trying to figure out if my life has become dramatically more boring, or if I have just temporarily lost my creativity to post things on here. Micah told me I could post about the weekend we had in Idaho, but I feel since half of the people on this blog were there it feels pointless. Plus, I'm not in the mood. Then this blog starts feeling like a boring journal, and then I stop posting. I hate writing in journals, no one wants an account of how many times a day I change diapers, trust me.

I was going to do some Christmas shopping today while Jayden and Jacklyn were in school. But when Jacklyn got up this morning, she started barfing, and was still barfing when the bus came, so I decided to keep her home. And there goes Christmas shopping. I feel kind of antsy to get it done really early this year. I'm trying to figure out if it's the economy that's making me uneasy, or the fact that every single time I go to Wal-Mart or ToysRUs, they are completey out of the stuff I want to buy. I was going to get Jacklyn this Ponyville bus that she wanted, but Mich wanted me to wait until he got paid, so I waited. Then I went to Wal-Mart, and they have been sold out every since. I have been having the same problems with Jayden. ToysRUs had legos, buy one, get one half off. I went up there, and all, I'm not kidding, all of the Indiana Jones legos were gone. They said they were getting a shipment in tonight, so come back tomorrow. I did, and the selection hadn't improved much. At least they had the one set I wanted. I started talking to the guy shopping next to me, who was also complaining about the poor selection, and picked over products. At least I'm not the only one.

So I have been thinking about our Christmas tree lately. We put it up over Thanksgiving weekend, and I have been looking at it for the last couple of weeks. It looks somewhat pathetic. In Amber's terms "a Charlie Brown Christmas tree." We use to have these gorgeous beads that strung on it, but Jacklyn took a pair of scissors to the beads last year, so those are gone. Then, we had some pretty red and gold glass ornaments, those have been dropping like flies this year. After cleaning up three broken glass ornaments a day for a week, I finally just tossed the rest. There there's this Christmas ribbon I bought a few years ago; I thought: yea, something the kids can't break. But any ribbon from four feet down looks like it just went through WWII. The top of tree looks nice though. So I decided that since the ornaments are being thinned out by the kids, and I'm getting kind of tired of the look anyways, because I wanted to go more country. I have decided to decorate our tree next year in snowmen. I saw a Christmas tree in the Country Sampler that I really liked that had snowmen and santas on it, and that is what I've decided. You can buy the patterns online, so lately I've been browsing for snowmen ornaments online. They should be really fun to make. I'm excited. I've got, like 325 days or so to do them, so I should have plenty of time, right? They also have these Christmas picture frame ornaments you can buy and stick your family picture in the frame and hang it on the Christmas tree. I asked Micah if he would make some for me. He told me to just buy them, then I showed him the price and how many I wanted, and he changed his mind. I also told Micah I wanted him to make a big snowman, like the one Mom has in her entryway at her house. He said ok. I've decided that I'm in love with snowmen and just have to decorate with them at Christmas time. And with that everyone have a fantastic day.