Let's Get This Over With...

It's no secret that I don't particularly enjoy the Christmas - oh, sorry, HOLIDAY - season.  There's so much commercialism and hustle and bustle and expectation and ugh - I'd just rather be on a beach somewhere.

However, I do want Ryan and Jack to have good Christmas memories, so today I put on my less Grinch-y face and pulled out the boxes of Christmas decorations.

I love our little fake tree because a) I can put it up out of reach of the children if I need to and 2) we have enough meaningful ornaments that we don't have to use a lot of fillers.

This year I took a chance and put it at toddler/preschooler height, but I only used unbreakable (or easily repairable) ornaments.

The boys had a lot of fun hanging the ornaments and "helped" me with some of the other decorations around the house (which I forgot to take pictures of - this little tree looks very Charlie Brown Christmas without seeing how the rest of the house is decorated!).