Last week my two sons had their Christmas piano recital. I couldn’t go because I had to be the parent in charge at the ping pong club that Ahn still belongs to though he couldn’t go…
Anyway, they brought these cookies home with them, and I thought they were really cute and interesting.
Yeah! It’s that time of year again.
We usually put up our Christmas decorations – the tree, in house things like some candles and pictures, and the outside lights, the weekend after Thanksgiving. Because we had a crazy week that week, we had to wait another week to do the outside lights.
Then, when we started putting up the tree inside, we found out that most of our lights had died, and it was too late at night to go buy replacements!!
So, the tree stood at the top of the stairs looking a bit forlorn with boxes of decorations scattered about but nothing on the tree.
We finally got some lights, spent some time arranging things to get at least one good string that worked, and finally put up the rest of the decorations.
I think it turned out pretty well, and we had fun finishing it up.
Oh, we always do this as a family. This also was part of why it took so long to put everything up since we are all so busy it isn’t easy to have time together for doing it.
Here are some pictures of the tree and outside, plus a short video of the outside lights so you can see what that looks like while it’s blinking.
Getting a lot more like Christmas around our house these days. Put up the tree of course right after Thanksgiving which is our family tradition. We usually leave the tree and lights up until New Year’s Day.
We have been putting things up a little at a time this year because of a really, really crazy schedule and the fact that large number of our previous decorations haven’t aged well and needed replacing.
We were playing around the tree a few nights ago and took a few photos of our blowup Santa and some of his helpers.
Here they are…
We got a bit of a late start on this, and we’re still not finished even though Christmas is just around the corner.
Our lights from the last few years have been dropping off one by one, so this year we had to get some new ones. We’ve looked at all the department stores and specialty shops but couldnt’ find anything that really went well for our house, so we ended up having to order some things.
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Here are a few pictures. They’re not great, but they give you an idea. We have more lights coming in the next couple of days so I hope to update things then.
UPDATE: added a couple of new strings of lights.
