The Sewing Mom

Have you decorated for the holidays?  I haven’t even started, although I’ve wanted to for the last several days.  My husband has been out of town so he wasn’t here to put the tree up.  That’s always the first thing to go up before any decorations can go anywhere else.

 Moving into a new house means figuring out where everything will go.  We’ve been discussing the positioning of the tree for weeks and we can’t seem to agree on where it should go.  We at least agree that it will be in the family room, we just can’t decide which end of the family room.  My husband would like to just slightly move furniture and squeeze the tree into a corner.  I am afraid putting it in that particular corner will block the T.V.   I  would like to rearrange the furniture and put the tree in the opposite corner from where my husband wants it.  In the end, I’ll probably have to let him try it his way and then he can decide if he likes it or not.

 I am looking forward to seeing this house all decorated.  Our last house we had to keep the tree in the entry way because our tree is 10 feet tall and that was the only place it would fit.  We bought the tree when we had a house with a family room and a two story ceiling.  The tree looked beautiful in that house.  Since then it’s looked huge.  I think it will be okay now, although we may have trouble putting the tree topper on it.

We did go out last Saturday shopping for a new tree.  We looked at both pre-lit on regular artificial trees.  I can’t get over how expensive they are.   The trees we looked at were all on sale, but even on sale, they were pricey.  I just couldn’t bring myself to spend that kind of money on a tree.   We decided to use our tree for another year and hopefully we’ll find one at an even bigger discount before the season is over that we can use next year.

So tomorrow our plan is to decorate.  My husband has the day off and it will be a good day to spend together.  My daughter loves decorating the tree, so if he can get it put together and placed in the family room we can get it decorated.  While he’s putting the tree together I can work on decorating the mantel.   Then, while my daughter & I are decorating the tree, he can work on putting the lights outside.  It all sounds so simple, I hope we can get it all done tomorrow and sit back and enjoy it.