It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

The halls have been decked! 

I am so happy! I started off my day by sleeping in. Then I ran out to do a couple of errands. A big shout out to Meredith at Happy Baked Goods for hooking me up with extra cookies. She made my whole weekend.

I stopped at another local store,went for a drive and then headed home to start bringing all of the Christmas bins into the house from the garage and haul the Christmas tree in as well. I still laugh because it looks like a body bag. 

My mom had tried to convince me that I should probably get a pencil tree this year because it was going to be hard to fit a full sized tree and still have space in my living room. I waffled back and forth for awhile and kept looking at skinny trees online, but my heart just wouldn't let me do it. I needed my big tree. Especially this year. I thought about how I could fit it without it taking up so much space. I finally decided one night last week that if I moved my TV, it just might fit in the corner.

It did! All the lights worked. I had to "fluff" it out and then set to work on the ribbon...which I had to redo because I ran out too early and it looked stupid. From there my living room exploded into a giant disaster. I was struggling trying to figure out what looked best where. I found a few things that didn't spark joy, so they went into my donate pile. 

Eventually I needed more Command hooks, so I went to Walmart. Of course since I was purging a few things I don't love anymore, I had to get a few other decorations. They didn't have the hooks I needed though, and so I ended up at Ace too. Then back home to eat and put together a shelf. I finished hanging things up and then moved on to decorating the tree.

I saved the boys' ornaments for them to hang up when they come home. I used to envision myself being the "fun" mom, but I can't handle it. I have to be able to decorate on my own, and not have "help". I have to think things through and move things around a hundred times without anyone giving me unsolicited advice. Thankfully they accept that, and they know we'll do other fun activities together too. 

Now, here I sit, enjoying the glow of the Christmas tree. Listening to the rain. And wondering what time I'll fall asleep tonight because I'm wide awake right now. No church tomorrow though. We're shut down this Sunday, so maybe I'll actually spend some time relaxing tomorrow before the boys come home.