When putting up the Christmas decor I usually don't have much "useful" help. I do have helpers but they get distracted too easy.
This year I was worse than them. My mission was to put up the tree. If I got nothing else done I wanted the tree up. It didn't go as planned and I was the problem.
Our day went pretty much like this. It started at 8:00:
1. Pancake breakfast~yummy
2. Church~sermon made me cry.
3. Lunch
4. Nap~not long enough
5. Unpack the storage building so that we can get Christmas decor AND Gracelyn's baby clothes out for a friend to borrow
6. Start going through baby clothes and reminiscing about what she wore and when she wore it.
7. Throw a load of baby clothes into the wash and then decide that I better start working on Christmas stuff.
8. Pack away lots of pictures, knick-knacks, mantle decorations to make room for the holiday stuff.
9. Change out washer and dryer and go through another set of clothes and get teary eyed.
10. Set up dancing snowman and sing along with him for a few minutes.
11. Try to find a place for a sign that I got last year at bunco but never had a place for. It is super cute and I wanted it hung up in a prominent spot this year.
12. Notice that the new sign place needs to be cleaned since it is in the kitchen and above the cabinets. I don't clean up there regularly~you're shocked I know.
13. Look over on top of the fridge and realize that I could qualify for the show "How Clean is Your House". ACK.
14. Clean the fridge and switch out pictures for the frames on the front of the doors and then clean up the mass of papers that I have collected over the past year. Reminisce over all the birth announcements and pictures of special friends we have received since we have lived here.~It was a HUGE stack.
15. Deem that the reason the troops are restless is that they are starving. I'm on a mission to get that tree up so ordering pizza it is.
16. Go through the 3rd set of clothes and swap out the laundry~AGAIN.
17. Sit down to catch my breath in front of the computer and end up writing a blog entry. he he he.
18. Look behind me and realize there is no tree up yet.
I'm in big trouble.
6 comments:
I hear ya! Wade's job was pulling down boxes and putting the tree up. My job was the actual decorating. Boxes are down and the tree is up. Decorations are everywhere, EXCEPT on the tree. I'm reading blogs...nice. :)
ahh YES! i'VE BEEN there many times. That's the life of having kids and isn't it wonderful!
That sounds like everyday in my life...hee haa! Is there a test for ADD in adults???
~;-))))))
You had good intentions, that's what matters! We haven't even talked about getting the decorations down yet...wish I could hire someone to do that for me!
That is absolutely hilarious!!! I love it! Sounds like a great day, there is always tomorrow for the tree!!
You crack me up! Thanks for the laugh--and for showing that you are, in fact, completely human! :)
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