Tree

Bought the slim tree on Friday evening. Grant and I had to work (inventory time) on Saturday, so it was Saturday evening before we had a chance to work on it. When he opened the box, he discovered the lights were multi-colored. He would have been perfectly happy with it, but I had my heart set on white lights, so we had to schlep it back to Lowes for an exchange. He's really a good guy to indulge me!

We spent Sunday evening decorating. We were kind of missing our fireplace mantles because the decorating options were plentiful. So, Grant bought some of those floating shelves and installed them for me. We still don't have room for all of our Christmas decor, but we could at least display our favorites.

The slim tree turned out pretty nice. I ended up with a lot of leftover beads because there's just not as much diameter. But, we don't even miss the floor room it uses. It blocks the view of the TV from one end of the sofa, but I reckon it's a good trade-off.

There's one gift under the tree so far . . . Tasha (Doug's wife) drew my name for Christmas and she's way ahead of the game -- gave it to me at Thanksgiving. Thanks Tasha! (I haven't peeked -- yet! Hee Hee).

Putting up the tree today

We'll be putting up the Christmas tree today.

Small apartment + House-size tree = no room for presents!

This is what our tree looked like last year. See? Plenty of room for presents. (I love gift bags, don't you? Though, it seems that they take up more room than just wrapping the gift in a simple box.)

So, we purchased a "slim" tree yesterday. And . . . it's the first pre-lit tree we've ever had. I can't wait to bypass the whole untwist the lights, check the bulbs, wind the strands evenly around the branches, hide the plugs, etc. I'm sure many of you already have a pre-lit tree, but I gotta tell you, I'm even thrilled with the "foot action" light switch so that we don't have to dig around behind the tree to plug in the lights every night.

Hey, you can find small pleasures in just about every situation, right?