Why Mom always sets up the Christmas tree after everyone is sleeping.

We beautified the Christmas tree on Tuesday night. It has been up since last Friday but we hadn't had a chance to decorate it yet. WOW!! I think that Earl and I are crazy. If we weren't before for letting the kids help, we definately were after! First of all... THE LIGHTS!!! Whoever invented Christmas lights should be shot! I ALWAYS put red and white lights on the tree. Do you think that we could get any of the red lights to work? After about 45 minutes of kids going bezerk, I finally put in the Grinch movie. That stopped them for the whole 31 minutes of the movie but guess what, we had moved on to the multi-colored lights and were trying to untangle 3 strands of 300 each lights. MERRY CHRISTMAS! After finally accomplishing that goal we decorated. By this time, Earl is strung as tight as the tangle lights. I just sat in the chair and fed Chansy and put hangers on the ornaments for the kids. Luckily, they all survived, as did the tree. No tree tipping this year and no permanent nail in the wall to wire the tree to. It was a good night though. Especially when you turn on the lights and admire it in the dark. Kalon told us that it was his "gooder night ever"!