Wrap presents: check. Host Christmas party: check. Clean blood stains from the walls after the fiercest white elephant gift exchange ever: check. Gain 10 lbs from all of the holiday parties: check. It’s about that time!!
This is our best attempt at a family picture with the tree. We are blocking the tree entirely with our bodies which defeats the purpose of taking the picture in the first place, but it’s the only picture where Maddy doesn’t look completely miserable. We chose Maddy over the tree.
Speaking of Maddy… she suddenly is having a love affair with the stupid Christmas tree. This year she’s finally discovered that the tree is actually resting in an enormous tub of water *gasp*… and she’s become Pepe le Pew, seeking to be reunited with her lover no matter the distance or challenge. (For those born too many years after me to count, Pepe le Pew is an amorous cartoon skunk that falls in love with a black cat and will stop at nothing to be with her despite her frantic protests… it’s like cartoon date rape.) So we’ve built a fort of presents and shipping boxes around the tree to block access, but as you can see here…
…she mission-impossibled her way to her lover by wriggling through a three or four inch gap underneath the bookcase (the idiot couldn’t get back out though, and was totally busted. See how guilty she looks?) We’ve also now add various pieces of furniture and piles of heavy books to the Fort of STOP IT ALREADY. So far it’s holding, yay. Meanwhile, our tree is dying because we can’t reach it ourselves to give it more water. We chose Maddy over the tree *again*. Is this what it’s like to have kids?
We want to wish safe travels to all of our friends and loved ones regardless of naughty/nice status. Hope you get everything you want this year! From our family to yours, we wish you a very merry Christmas!
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