I Finally Finished Decorating my Tree

It took me two whole weeks--but I finally finished decorating my Christmas Tree! And the reason I finished it was because someone was coming to my house. Yes, I had to have a reason, a deadline, to make me finish it. Otherwise, it would still be in a state of semi-decoratedness.

Here is a picture of it BEFORE I tipped it over.


I thought that I could crawl under the piano to get behind the tree so I could rearrange some of the decorations I had placed on the piano. Well, I was reaching and stretching to get something, and the next thing I knew--the tree went crashing to the floor. So all the decorations I had so painstakingly placed on my tree were either broken, twisted, or otherwise messed up. The worst part was all the water that gushed out of the stand and onto my recently-shampooed carpet.

Zachary helped me pick up the tree, soak up the water with towels, and vacuum up the shattered ornaments and pine needles. Then we pulled the tree out into the middle of the room so the carpet could dry.

When MaryAnne arrived home late Saturday night she was welcomed into--not a lovely, peaceful home, beautifully decorated for the holidays--but the chaos of my home with the Christmas Tree in the middle of the room, surrounded with broken ornaments in need of repair, wet towels, the vacuum, and several fans blowing on the wet carpet. Oh, and our furnace decided to quit working that night. Thank goodness we had a good fireplace and plenty of firewood and coal to burn.

Now, two days later, I have re-decorated the tree, pushed it back into it's proper place, and attained a wee bit of order and sanity into our home. I still haven't wrapped a single gift, I still don't know what to get for the neighbors, and I woke up this morning with a sore throat. Thank goodness there are still 2 (well really only 1 1/2)more days until Christmas!