So deck your halls and hang your tinsel... The Christmas Tree Is up!!! After a few near death experiences between the tree and myself, it has been levelled .. All though after a Few Baileys and Egg Nog.. I am not sure which one of us is leaning to the right.
Outside may be ice cold and barren of any snow, but the inside feels like over the river and through the woods! Every box of decorations opened brings back a flood of recent memories and memories that have decades of fragile dust gathered on them. It's the holiday Horders must dream about because when your kid makes that egg carton sleigh, you know you can never get rid of it... Or the millions of cut out snowflakes.. Even if you now you will make a million more next year.. The way things are going I am going to be getting a uHaul truck to start delivering the boxes of decorations in the next 5 years.
There is so much glitter floating around this house right now it looks like either Ke$ha threw up or Edward exploded in the sunlight.. Pine needles replace hardwood floor, garland replaces crown moulding and I swear I saw a couple chipmunks trying to stuff a hula hoop into a tree by the creek.. Only at Christmas...
But it's not even December!! I am sure a lot of you have uttered these words as you were reading. Around here Christmas music gets played after the first big snow fall, that didn't last long but it got cranked non the less.. Bing Crosby and Bono were belting out the festive tunes faster then my 5 year old and 3 year old could make snow angels. Decorations usually follow a week or so after, depending on the time of snow... But the tree.. Hohhot the Tree.. Oh Christmas Tree oh Christmas Tree.. Where the heck in Westbank can we find a Christmas tree???????
Load up the truck and back over the river and through the woods.. It's off to Dogwood we go!! Nada.. Zip.. Oh wait they have a 3 foot potted tree.. Nothing for another week.. That ain't gonna fly.
Back into the truck, over the highway, down the Main Street.. It's off to Bylands we go!! The main doors open.. The smell of vanilla and cranberry candles fills the air. Silver and Gold decorations adorn the display trees... Wait, what?? No trees until Tuesday.. Charlie Brown we need a miracle!!
Back in the truck
Back to the highway
Stop at Tim Hortons because this is Canada.. And it's Christmas.. All we need is Crosby handing me Timbits through the drive thru window.. Any chance of that Gary??
Anyway.. Back on the road , through the parking lot... Home Depot shines like a beacon of salvation with its rows of bundled up pine needle dropping trees!!!!!
So now it stands here, twinkling in the darkness of the house. The kids are asleep and I swear that tree is leaning to the left but it's nothing another glass of Baileys won't fix.. Ran out of Egg nog 3 glasses back!
