We tried to gear up for Christmas with our usual zest for the holiday; but, we were thrown this year...as we will be from now on, because SP 2.0's birthday is, pretty much, right after Thanksgiving (it was this year, anyways). We want to celebrate his birthday apart from the celebration of the birth of Christ, because it seems important somehow. I also don't want my kid walking around in future thinking he is some kind of poor sucker for drawing the short straw to get born in December (I really did try for a November birthday, Little Dude). 
We waited an extra week to get our Christmas tree from our favorite place for that sort of thing, Maple Lane Farms. It was SP2.0's first tree-cutting, as far as he is concerned, it didn't live up to the hype.
I threw my Martha-complex out the window this year, and Papa and I let SP1.0 pick the tree. The stipulation being the tree could not be taller than his Dad (or it wouldn't fit in our house). He eventually settled on a tree that happened to be one of the wider trees on the farm. Awesome.
The tree sat undecorated for two weeks due to Papa's end of semester crush and our last minute travels; but, once we got around to decorating it, we started to feel quite jolly.
We went to the annual party at the Coast Guard Academy. While most kids used the opportunity to have serious discussions with Santa about how good they were this year and what they deserved, our kids used their moment with the jolly fat man to ask him if he was aware that he was not real (but, please still bring presents, thanks) and wonder why the parental units handed them over to the jolly fat man's temporary care.
For those unaware, "Santa is like Thomas the Train, not really real". And what do you say to that? We say, "get outside and play in the snow." Mostly because it was 5 days before Christmas and we still needed a Christmas picture.
And that's what we did after the snowstorm last weekend. Twenty-four inches of white fluffiness. I am not a fan (clearly, SP 2.0 and I are of similar minds on the subject of snow).
But Papa got a change to use a snow-blower and is pretty convinced that this will make an awesome Christmas gift next year (he seems to be aware that I am done on the shopping front, and, you know, so is Santa).There are a lot of photographs in flickr. There will, of course, be more on Christmas Day.
2 comments:
What?!?! Not really real?
Nice tree! We went fake this year...owell. The boys are so cute can't wait to see them and you both. I was going to say, a snow blower, that's a great idea! I know they get pretty pricey though. Hope you had a nice peaceful Christmas!
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