Christmas?

The tiredness has hit me again. One month left until our little girl is here and I am exhausted just thinking about getting our little home ready for some green and red joy. We've had our tree up for three weeks now and it's only got half the lights it needs... still. And it doesn't even seem that long, which is the scariest part. When your poor tree can be up for almost a month without being fully decorated there is a problem. The situation is that our tree last year was quite a bit smaller than this one and therefore there are not enough lights to go around. And guess who hasn't had the funds nor the energy to go get some more? Yup. This girl right here. The one sitting on the couch in her sweats and sweatpants who got up two hours ago and is already ready for a nap.

Handsome Husband turns the lights on every night and every morning because, let's face it, even with the tree only half lit, it's still gorgeous. I can't get myself to add the decorations, though, without it being fully lit. So it's just a bit of green in our living room sprinkled with some bulbs but it still lightens up a dark room.

I've got our Christmas box of decorations up out of the basement and there's only one box, but it's enough to fill our little home, if we had the room for it. I tell you... decorations take up a lot of shelf room that we don't really have. Handsome Husband says that he likes having all of our 'books' out for people to see 'cause they say something about us. Well, our books consist of old text books and a lot of missionary material packed into unattractive binders. Not exactly the statement I would like to make. So what if those college years were good and the mission days were the best of Steven's life, no need to broadcast the past all over the place. We need to pick up the pace with some children's books.

Now the decorations sit in the middle of the living room floor, waiting for me to get some adrenaline to find homes for them. The tree remains undecorated and I haven't found the energy to bake up some holiday goodies. This could remain to be an uneventful Christmas season. Only time will tell.