We put the Christmas tree up on Saturday. We (meaning I) kept it pretty simple this year and didn’t even put EVERY.SINGLE ornament on the tree. Since our entire living room is 18 inch tiles I bought a VERY large piece of felt to put under the tree and am hoping (and praying) that it will protect my breakable ornaments should they somehow find their way off of the tree.
(and with two young boys in the house, one being a “bull in a china shop” toddler, I’m sure y’all can imagine some of the ways that those ornaments might end up coming/falling/making their way off the tree…)
The boys put themselves in charge of decorating the bottom part of the tree as I unpacked the “safe” ornaments (a.k.a non-breakables and ones that I don’t care about that much…). When I turned around the bottom 2 feet of the tree was covered with ornaments already. It left me quite puzzled as to why toy clean-up can’t happen that fast. Hmmmm…
Next thing I knew The B Man was coming to me with a ceramic ornament that he painted 2 years ago at a paint-your-own-pottery place. He was about to cry because the top of Santa’s hat had come off SOMEHOW and soon Little G was under intense interrogation (by big brother).
Instead of taking time to ask how it happened I jumped to the solution and asked Tim where the super glue was.
He hollered back that he had no idea and that he would pick some up when he went out for something else in a bit. Oh that’s right, when he went out for our gingerbread lattes. But I digress…
So then I wondered. How many tubes of super glue has my husband “ran out” to get in the last several years? I mean EVERY. SINGLE. TIME we need it he goes out to get another tube. We can never find the last one we used. I do believe there must be a massive collection of super glue tubes that has yet to be discovered. Somewhere.
Maybe even if we found them we’d still have to go out and get new because the cap is probably super-glued to the tube anyway, right?
And to be honest, I’m wondering if Tim even knows what happened to the one that he just bought the other day, which he successfully used to repair Santa’s hat.
So tell me, what’s something around your house that you have to buy new every time you need it? And please, don’t say chewing gum because, DUH! (although I would hope that YOU would need new chewing gum every time because if not, um Ewwww…).
The completed tree with my co-decorators in front of our masterpiece.
And in other news we had a little of this in SOUTHERN Louisiana this weekend. WHAT is up with that?
The tree looks great!
Things that I have to buy constantly because I lose them are hair ties, bobby pin, clippies etc.
I cannot keep up with them to save my life…although I think the cat may have a stash somewhere and when we move out they might surface
Beautiful tree..I love x-mas…especially with snow
Oh girl yes, christmas tree lights, ugh….. And glue and tape.
And I can say that we have successfully glued the tops back on no less than 5 ornaments already, fun stuff.
Your tree looks beautiful and your kiddos cute as can be!
Beautiful tree. We got our first snow this morning, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
We are the same way. One day I will find the secret stash of 30 gorilla glues!
that’s too funny.
Mmm, gingerbread lattes….
I am sorry, were you asking me something?
Please take a picture when you find that stash of superglue, that’s gotta be blog worthy.
Jay keeps buying that too and I find that it doesn’t usually work. Those commercials on TV LIE.
Hahaha! I so get the superglue thing. We have gone through TONS of superglue in this house. It must be because little boys tend to break things very easily.
Pretty tree!
YES! I have a secret stash of superglue…somewhere…too! Dang tiny tubes are too easily lost, it’s all a ploy to keep us coming back for more. Your tree looks lovely – and hey, B Man still fits in last year’s Christmas sweater! ;o)
Breakable ornaments and kids don’t mix do they?
We started decorating the tree today and right after I handed Kate the glass tree topper from my childhood I heard a crash.
What was I thinking???
I’m so excited you got a little dusting!! We got some last night ourselves (finally).
Love the story of the super glue, and it’s so true. Although we don’t need it as often as you do since we’re Jewish. LOL!
Something about that super glue. It’s like once you open it, you won’t be able to use it again.
Your tree looks GREAT!
Love the tree, looks great. Troy isn’t touching the tree at all, I’m actually SHOCKED.
Seems like we never can find packing tape. And I know I buy it in rolls of three!
Okay, so I love this post for two reasons. 1) the girls managed to break three ornaments in less than 5 minutes this year during decorating at the Borth’s, until I got them on track with the “safe” ornaments. 2) We ran out to get super glue and I found this handy-dandy 4 pack of one-time-use super glue. Now, the trick will be finding the 3 that are left next time I’m in need.
Hope you are doing great with the new baby. I am going to go search for a mom story on your blog to see how it’s going. -Jen
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