A Hill Family First

Since Lee and I got married, we have always had a fake Christmas tree. I just think it's a lot easier to deal with. Less mess, easy disposal, etc. And every year Lee whines about it. He wants the SMELL of Christmas in the house. Well, this year, our softball team was selling trees at school for a very reasonable price. They even agreed to deliver them! So I caved. Although there is quite a mess everywhere - I just can't seem to get all the needles up before more fall - it is beautiful. And it does smell really good. It is so huge. We had to move furniture all over to make room for it. Parker loves turning the lights on in the morning and turning them off at night. He's been pretty good about leaving it alone...but as you can see he does sneak over every now and then to see what he can do. So all in all, I'm glad we have it. That's not to say that we'll have a real one next year...we'll just have to see.

I must give some credit to my sweet little sister, Lia. Lee and I put the tree up last Saturday and put the lights on and everything, but we didn't have time to put the ornaments on. I had truly considered not putting ornaments on it at all...I mean, the time to leave the tree up this year is so short. Well, I came home from school on Wednesday to find my tree totally decorated. Lia had come home after exams and decorated the tree while I was gone. And she's allergic to real Christmas trees! I'm was and am so grateful. It really is beautiful. She did a great job.

One last week left of school!! Being out last week for our "snow day" kinda spoiled me. I'm ready to be out NOW!!