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The tree is drooping with Christmas still four days away, but we are mostly ready. Tonight I will finish wrapping. Tomorrow we will go get haircuts, buy stocking stuffers, and assemble the little quad rider we bought Gia. Tuesday is baking day. So why am I frenzied?
Gia is EXTREMELY attention seeking and hyper. It’s too cold to burn off energy outside and she has an excess. We bought a mini trampoline for inside, but can’t assemble it till the tree is down. So we are a bit worn out and I have been neglecting my blog. As soon as I recharge, I’ll be back. I hope everyone has a peaceful and joyous holiday, and I will blog you later.
Our tree trimming was put off by the cat getting caught in the garage door incident. Yes he was, and it was awful. I had gone out there to see if the door was down or not, and as soon as I opened the door I heard this terrible yowling. All I could see is the cats neck and head trapped by the door. As soon as I opened the garage door, he immediately began doing these strange gyrations and flips, before disappearing. We wanted to take him to the animal hospital, but catching him was not happening.
Now these doors are supposed to stop if someone enters when the door is engaged. We’ve tested it and I am not sure why it failed. The poor cat is so traumatized it won’t go near the garage. We weren’t really up for decorating after this, but we tried for Gia.
We wound about six strands of lights around the tree, only to forget to leave the plug handy. 
Oops, it was okay though because we managed to work it down to connect to our surge protector strip. Now it was time for the decoration, or the “ballies” as Gia calls them. I carefully unwrapped the large handblown blue favorite and went to put it high up, when my dear husband tells me to let him do it. Silly me, I hand it over and CRASH. Oops, he tells me , it slipped.
Why is it the ONE ornament out of so many to break is the most expensive? What are the odds? Anyway, we decided to save the rest of it for later. Much later. More to come……..we’ll get this tree trimmed yet.
We got our Christmas tree today. The first tree we saw was perfect- a six foot Frasier fir. Not one to leave well enough alone, I had to go a bit bigger, so we grabbed another one, and drove home without mishap with it on our roof. My husband got out our tree stand, and as I dusted it off, he went to get the tree. That’s when the trouble began….
We had cleared a corner of the living room next to the unused fireplace, which we won’t use till Gia is able to stay away from it, which may be years from now. We put the tree stand down and here he comes in with the tree, still in it’s netting, banging into every light fixture along the way. He then places it in the stand and steps back, telling me to just leave it for awhile. Before I can say, “are you nuts, you didn’t tighten it ”, BAM, the tree starts to fall. And where does it go? It goes right for the mantel, taking out decorations and the fire implement stand, which all crash down on the wood floor, as we all jump back.
Damage? Oh yes! We had a nick in the floor, a broken globe from a stocking holder with water and glass everywhere, a headless marching soldier, and. worse of all, the wood trim around the bottom of the fireplace that the floor installers had put in ripped away. Yet not one tree needle was seen, so I would say the tree is a fresh one. You can tell by the sap on the drape where SOMEBODY leaned the tree after it fell.
After we cleaned up the mess, told our little one what had happened several times, because she always wants things defined, we set the tree up again AND TIGHTENED THE STAND. That’s when Gia decided it needed a drink and proceeded to pour her orange juice on the tree. Oh Christmas tree……Tomorrow we decorate it. Let’s hope it goes better……….
