Have a holly jolly Christmas...

I don't know how everyone else stores their lights, but despite our best efforts we always get some like this; so of course I put my kids on the job of testing and untangling the lights (because what is frustrating for me is great fun for them). I look over at Caroline and she says take a picture of me I'm all lighted up. So much for helping untangle lights:)
All three kids take their turn putting the star on top before Rangi takes his turn and I tell him how to straighten it a million times before going to do it myself to find that it really isn't that easy. (maybe next year I will commit it to memory).
Sometimes I feel bad that my Christmas tree doesn't look like it came out of a pottery barn magazine... until I watch my kids take out all of the ornaments and reminisce about their whole lives. In Caroline's case she said, "remember when I made this ornament when I was in the first grade and I got married?" Actually you are still not in first grade, nor are you married, and you WISH you made the prettiest ornament we have that no one we know made. At any rate when the tree is all decorated it is the prettiest tree I have seen, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

(As my friend Lisa said...I can't wait to see what the tree looks like in 20 more years.)
Little Old Lady from Pasadena ??? That was my guess too, when she quizzed me. "NO MOM I AM MARY" I do collect Nativity scenes but none of my Marys wear glasses.