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| they are in awe of how big dirty santa is |
that's our new tradition...
since target went and closed their garden section...
taking our Christmas tradition and spitting on it!
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| girl child trying to pop off boy child's head |
we were forced last year to find a new Christmas tree getting tradition...
getting our tree at the 'dirty santa' tree lot
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| their faces were over the top cheese in this pic... just give me a nice simply smile...please |
just to clarify...
we've named him dirty santa...
that's not the actual name of the place....
santa just looks like he could use some oxi clean...
a good long soak in the stuff...
but I get it...
year after year of being out in the nasty elements
and your whites aren't looking so white anymore!
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| i will love him and squeeze him and call him george |
we never get a tree this early...
we always wait until after the girl child's birthday...(Dec 2nd)
I never wanted Christmas to crowd her birthday,
making her birthday not as special or something like that...
last year she wanted to know why we waited until after her birthday to get a tree
I explained my reasons...
she disagreed...
having a tree up for her birthday would make it seem more special...
only Dec babies get the opportunity for a Christmas tree up on their birthdays...
well played girl child...
so this year...
lights up...tree up
house decorated for Christmas...
all before December even starts...
I think I'm going to like this new tradition...
but they just couldn't get their acts together and contain themselves for one nice dirty santa shot
mr. tree man...
who thought I was weird when I asked if I could take a picture...
or maybe he just wasn't 'speaking the same english as us'
(boy child's suggestion....
he did seem more native to south of the border...)
anyways...
mr. tree man was very nice and friendly...
talked to me about his grandkids...
how he likes to sell trees because it makes kids and families happy...
he told me how nice and behaved boy and girl child were...
guess he wasn't hearing me
a name at no extra cost...
in fact I think the name made it cheaper!...
boy child wanted to sit next to Norman on the way home...keep him safe...
Beau liked the price so much that he was okay with us keeping Norman's name tag on him....
what's your Christmas tree getting tradition?
what's your Christmas tree getting tradition?
3 comments:
I loved the Dirty Santa story! We have no Christmas tree tradition anymore, of course, but I can tell you a story about Luke and the Christmas tree hunt in the forest when he was three. He took with him a toy chain saw, so I played along and asked him to cut a little tree for me. He turned to me with a look of disbelief and more than a little disgust, and said, "Grandma....it's NOT real!!! :)) Hope you enjoy the story!
Also, I wanted to tell you that we will be coming for a visit next summer, and I have a beautiful family nativity set (60+ years old and made in Italy) which my sister is tired of storing for me. I think you said that you collect them, so would you like it? Much love to you and your family! Love, Grannie Jan
Mr.Smith tried to convince the kids this year to NOT have a tree-a riot almost ensued. We have a fake tree because after years of fighting ants, crispy trees (so dry we couldn't even turn on the lights for Christmas to prevent it all going up in flames), bugs or something alive making sounds (just waited for something to jump out at us that year from the tree) and the age old question of what to do with it afterwards. We lived in Sacramento at the time and they had RULES on how to get rid of the tree.
Enough about our tree tradition-I think we should come up with a name for our fake tree.
Traditions include food-have to have clam chowder, or tacos or something yummy for Christmas Eve. It used to be enchiladas in my family but my kids squashed that idea-may need to try to reintroduce it this year. Breakfast on Christmas morning is sticky rolls. Dinner is Ham, potatoes(of some kind), and whatever else. Dessert is a Red Velvet Cake which could be dessert on Christmas Eve depending on how bad we really want to eat it.
TRADITION!
Mrs. Smith
This is one of the funniest posts I've seen in a while! Great job Kiera (and Beau and girl and boy)
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