Yes, but do you like tinsel?

I've determined that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they like to decorate their tree.

The hubster is a colored lights kind of tree guy. I prefer white lights. If given his preference he would throw tinsel over the tree. Me, I think candy canes are a must.

So, we compromise. We have colored lights outside and on an artificial tree in the basement. Our main tree has white lights.

There isn't any tinsel anywhere.

Then there are the blinking light folks. I'm not sure about them!

Christmas

We finally got our tree yesterday. Actually, it doesn't seem that late but it seemed like we were a little behind the times.

We went to a big Christmas tree farms that had horse drawn wagons take you out to the fields.

Sounds pretty idyllic until you are in the moment. We had snow this week and it was about 40 degrees on Saturday so it all melted and left a lovely, muddy mess. It seemed to take a while to find a tree that interested us. Both kids chose the moment we were out in the field of trees to declare that they had to go to the bathroom. There were about a million people there....I guess we weren't the only ones to wait until this weekend to get our tree.

But, we found our tree and headed back to the "barn" for hot chocolate before heading home.

The most important aspect of all of this, the thing that saved our marriage and took all of the arguments out of Christmas? Last year we bought the tree stand with the spike up the middle. This year the farm shakes your tree out, bags it and drills a nice hole up the middle of the trunk for your stand.

We came home, carried the bagged tree inside, lined it up with the spike, and it was in!

There are still the lights to cause some arguments!

Snow Day!

We had our first snowfall of the season yesterday!

Only about 3 - 4 inches but it's is currently about 14 degrees Fahrenheit outside so everything looks beautiful.

The kids' schools are delayed today and that poses a problem. I have a feeling the boy's bus will arrive at our house at the same time that the girl has to be at school (a 15 minute drive away). Not to mention the fact that I am working in the 2 year old class today and need to be there 15 minutes before school starts.

But, we have snow!

The kids only had a little time to play in it yesterday before it got dark. The girl was done after about 15 minutes (too cold) but the boy could have stayed out all night I think!

On another note, this prevents us from putting up our Christmas lights. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing!