Christmas in the Mix

A couple of weeks ago I was commenting to a friend about my crazy high stress level over the past couple of months.  We have taken the average, everyday stresses of life and then compound them with remodeling and moving.  Now we have decided to ramp things up another notch and add Christmas into the mix.  I realize that regardless of the fact that life is about as much as I can handle right now, it is not fair of me to spoil Christmas for the kids.  So somehow we will carve out time and make room to celebrate the season.

On Friday, after Merrick went off to school, I found out that Santa and some of his reindeer were stopping by a local nursery that day.  I decided to grab Merrick right after school and head over.  Lines were long but the rain stayed away and the kids got to see Santa and Vixen and pet Joy (Vixen's baby who is not yet ready for sleigh duty).

Yesterday we had planned to spend the day at the new house.  We had a list of thing that needed to get done before we move in (hopefully next weekend).  We worked away all morning and when we finally got ready to break for lunch about 3pm we noticed that even though it was supposed to start raining in the afternoon, the rain had not yet come.  We decided to make a break for it and go get a Christmas tree.  As we drove to "The Farm" it sprinkled off and on and dark clouds began to build but we made it, found our tree, chopped it down, bailed it, loaded it, and headed off before the rain really came.  Unfortunately we weren't really prepared for the tree in our house so for now it sits in a bucket of water in the garage.  Hopefully today we will be able to rectify that situation because the kids are anxious to decorate.