We're lame and have a fake tree, with the lights already on it. With kids and dogs....that's always been the safest and cleanest route to go. One day we'll get a real tree. Plus, this year I was smart and used shatter-proof ornaments. Last year, Ian would take the ornaments off the tree and say "Ball!" and then proceed to throw them or smash them together. Not a lot of my ornaments survived. So after Christmas I got some on sale =)
We had a few kinks getting started. I plugged in the tree and there was a row of lights burned out. EEK!! Especially since this I a prelit tree, you can't just take the lights off. The lights are supposed to be the type that if one bulb burns out the rest stay lit (which I saw demonstrated on a few other spots). I changed the fuses....nothing....made sure all the bulbs were plugged in....nothing....I really didn't want to take every bulb out and test them....that's a pain. So I decided to just buy a strand of lights and wrap them around it. So I shuffled off to the store and got some lights. As I was wrapping them around the unlit branches....all of a sudden, they weren't unlit anymore! I guess I jiggled something and the lit back up! YAY!!! So then I put the lights around my window =)
Then I let the kids get down to business:
I let tehm decorate this little mini tree while I was getting everything ready =)
Of course you need window clings! Especially when you have a huge window!
Now the fun part:
I think this was longest they went all day without fighting! It was wonderful =) Until we ran out of ornaments......
They were pleased with themselves. I let them do pretty much all of it. I did move some ornaments because I hung all the ornaments on one branch =) Silly boy!
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