Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!!

I have never decorated my tree the weekend of Thanksgiving, as usual I always buck the trend and think why on earth would people do this to themselves, only to give it a try and see exactly why people do this. My house smells blissfully sweet, a big ol' tree will do that although the left over Thanksgiving dinner lended a bit to the smell. This was so much better than pizza and a rush job two weeks from now so close to Christmas that I would hide the ornament boxes on the other side of the living room ROFL.

Every year I start to realize how old the kids are getting not just from their Christmas wish lists but how they treat the decorating process and what my tree looks like the morning after!!!! This year was a bittersweet success!!!! Every year the tree looks like who hit it with decorations and ran, it takes 5 minutes and then I wait until the kids go to bed and take everything off and put it back on in some semblance of balance and order. This year we spent all day for the most part playing and picking with the tree together :) And the actually helped me drag that big thing into the living room and fetch the boxes SCORE! We did lights flowers and garland at which time they decided we needed to wait a few hours for Mel to get home to do the ornaments. Once he arrived they thoughtfully placed them on the tree stepping back to double check the placement every so often!!! Only Maiya lost interest after some time. sigh......they are really growing up!!!!!!!