Oh, Christmas Tree

Today we decorated our tree. Finally. I think it's been in the stand for a week now. However, we were totally unprepared for a real tree, which is the reason it sat bare so long. We didn't have enough of one color of lights to cover this tree!

This morning we stopped by Wal-Mart after Little Bub's swim lessons and picked up a strand of 200 red lights, after we hemmed and hawed over the ridiculous prices of the LED boxes of 25 lights (I just can't believe they were $7 a piece! We would have had to buy at least 5 boxes!).

After we finished wrapping the tree we looked at each other and knew it wasn't enough. I was content to leave it a little bare, but my husband decided that we needed to add the LED white and blue snowflake lights that I originally wanted to use (and which we didn't have enough of, nor can I find them in any store).

 

If you know me well, you know I have a touch of OCD about things matching and these two colors definitely do not go together, but I have to tell myself it doesn't matter. Not very many people are going to see my tree this year and Little Bub does not care one bit.

 

My husband's family has this tradition of taking pictures of the children hanging an ornament on the tree. Maybe we'll continue that tradition. Little Bub was more interested in pulling the ornaments off the tree though.

 

 

I gave him some unbreakable ornaments to play with and to leave under the tree for when he wants to touch things. Overall, I guess the effect of the different lights isn't all bad.