December 6

Christmas tree is all assembled!! Just in time for the baby when she arrives later this week.

We strung up four strands if 150 lights. The only problem I noticed during assembly was spacial. We had the tree pulled out but still had to pass the lights back and forth around the fireplace. This made or some long walks around the tree in both directions. :-)

We have about four boxes full of Christmas ornaments as well. Not ordinary boxes either, one is an old Battery backup box, another is an old tree stand box, and the other two boxes are professional paper storage boxes. We can comfortable pack on about two boxes worth of ornaments. The downfall to all of this though, is the cats!

The tree survived last night with only the loss of three bulbs. Thankfully it was only the plastic bulbs we have on the first three feet. Last year we lost at least twenty bulbs. (Leading to the abundance of ornaments we now own.)

As the weeks wear on, I'll keep a running total of bulbs knocked off and bulbs lost altogether.