We began decorating our Star Wars tree tonight, the first year for such a tree. But the truth is that Daddy has been collecting these Star Wars ornaments for quite some time, on and off. And while he's not exactly obsessive about it, there are probably about twenty-something ornaments, enough to make some space on our overcrowded main tree. We stopped by Hobby Lobby tonight and picked up some standard ball ornaments, silver in color and various in texture, and are using those to sort of bring the tree together somewhat. Best of all, the topper. We're making the topper this week. Daddy had a Death Star rocket topper from a few years ago. I have no idea how I happened upon it, but the thing still needs to be painted, and the four sections glued together. And instead of putting it on a rocket and launching it upward, we're putting it on top of a Christmas tree. Yes, a Death Star on top of the tree. As the season goes on, we'll be adding some Star Wars crafts along the way. It seems inevitable that an Origami Yoda will show up, and maybe more papercraft from that series of books. With the movie coming out this season, what better year to start our new holiday tradition: a Star Wars Christmas tree!
You may be wondering where it is going. It is actually taking the place of where Madison's pink tree has been the last few years. But don't worry - Madison's tree is safely standing beside her bed in her room, a rather unique little night light for the next few weeks.
The Christmas tree that we're hanging the Star Wars stuff on is a taller one, one somewhat larger than Daddy. Which doesn't say much. The point is, being on the landing, it should look nice for friends and family coming in the door, and possibly through the large front window up top. The tree itself came from Nana and Ba-Ba, who got themselves a new tree. So once again, we got ourselves a nice, free tree. Within a week, we should have about four of these trees up in the house, which is just crazy!
We had ballet today, or at least Madison did. Mommy and Daddy went over to the new sporting goods store that just opened up, and next to it, a Hobby Lobby that also just opened up. Once again, we got ourselves some new Christmas lights for our main tree, because the GE lights we got last year from Wal-Mart were already not working. "GE lights" stands for "Get Extra lights" because you're going to need them.
We also got a few Thanksgiving things for Madison next week. We had an extra pumpkin leftover, and that worked out for us: wait until you see what we'll do with that one!
It was a day off in a way, although Daddy was proofing the December book for KidPak and approving artwork from the graphics guy and talking to the printer and ... well, you get the idea. We did decorate what we'll call the rustic tree in that extra room, which is now looking nice and Christmassy. Which should be a word. Anyway, it looked all nice for Madison, who came in and began to practice her piano once more before tomorrow's big recital. She's just doing great!
She did some homework tonight, although not all of it. We'll save some for tomorrow, because tonight we wanted to watch a Christmas movie. Madison chose the classic "Olive the Other Reindeer" tonight, because it's awesome. Seriously, watch it. This is one of our favorites.
And so as you can tell, Christmas is in the air. We were having fun decking the halls today - literally. Mommy decorated the main hall with candles and wreathes, and even had a new bathroom floormat with reindeer on it, along with a new wreath for the bathroom door. Within a week or so, consider this place decked!
You may be wondering where it is going. It is actually taking the place of where Madison's pink tree has been the last few years. But don't worry - Madison's tree is safely standing beside her bed in her room, a rather unique little night light for the next few weeks.
The Christmas tree that we're hanging the Star Wars stuff on is a taller one, one somewhat larger than Daddy. Which doesn't say much. The point is, being on the landing, it should look nice for friends and family coming in the door, and possibly through the large front window up top. The tree itself came from Nana and Ba-Ba, who got themselves a new tree. So once again, we got ourselves a nice, free tree. Within a week, we should have about four of these trees up in the house, which is just crazy!
We had ballet today, or at least Madison did. Mommy and Daddy went over to the new sporting goods store that just opened up, and next to it, a Hobby Lobby that also just opened up. Once again, we got ourselves some new Christmas lights for our main tree, because the GE lights we got last year from Wal-Mart were already not working. "GE lights" stands for "Get Extra lights" because you're going to need them.
We also got a few Thanksgiving things for Madison next week. We had an extra pumpkin leftover, and that worked out for us: wait until you see what we'll do with that one!
It was a day off in a way, although Daddy was proofing the December book for KidPak and approving artwork from the graphics guy and talking to the printer and ... well, you get the idea. We did decorate what we'll call the rustic tree in that extra room, which is now looking nice and Christmassy. Which should be a word. Anyway, it looked all nice for Madison, who came in and began to practice her piano once more before tomorrow's big recital. She's just doing great!
She did some homework tonight, although not all of it. We'll save some for tomorrow, because tonight we wanted to watch a Christmas movie. Madison chose the classic "Olive the Other Reindeer" tonight, because it's awesome. Seriously, watch it. This is one of our favorites.
And so as you can tell, Christmas is in the air. We were having fun decking the halls today - literally. Mommy decorated the main hall with candles and wreathes, and even had a new bathroom floormat with reindeer on it, along with a new wreath for the bathroom door. Within a week or so, consider this place decked!
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