Re-Vision: A Photo Journal

By shellkaysm

And So It Begins...Again

The Christmas countdown is officially on, especially now that the calendar page has turned one last time for this year.

Today we went to pick out & bring home our tree. As I told Hannah: it felt wrong--like we were cheating--to agree on a tree in under five minutes. But we did. The pretty 6 1/2 ft. Blue Spruce is now in its stand (though it didn't get there without a little stress) awaiting some bling. The stand leaked, we took the tree back out & made adjustments that initially worked, put the tree back in the stand (with water) only to have it leak again upon turning the tree. I then had to drive Hannah to a birthday sleepover party while Paul dug out the old stand & trimmed the tree's base again. Now, all is calm (& bright, as he put the lights on as well. *Kate: this was the easy part, because I didn't touch the lights, today or when they were put away last year!) Now his work is done; the rest of the fun is always left to us girls. That will be tomorrow, when Hannah returns.

In the midst of the above tree issues, I lit the advent candle. Good thing I took this blip early. Just as last year, I forgot about it, only to realize so after the wax was melted midway between five & six! So much for that...until about Wednesday, anyhow! Ah, to own a brain!

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