An interesting weekend

Christmas 2009 is in full effect in the Brister household. I used to love putting up Christmas decorations as a youngster, but I don't know what's happened in my adult life. If there is one thing I HATE, it's putting up Christmas lights. I got the tree up with relative ease and then discovered approximately seven strands of our remaining lights were not working. This set me off on an hour-and-a-half, three store venture to find white lights (to go outside). I found them, got frustrated after a while and quit. Su has worked hard decorating everything else in the house so I offered to give Jacob his bath. Well, apparently while the bath water was running, THE TREE FELL!!! Oddly enough, noone heard it. After I got Jacob to bed, I made the gruesome discovery. Ten to 12 ornaments (the nice ones of course) were smashed into thousands of pieces. I got the tree back up after a struggle and IT FELL AGAIN!!! I now have it snugly secured and if it goes, the entire window seal goes. I am sure this will be funny one day but yesterday added up to be a horrific experience. The only thing I take solace in is that Jacob was nowhere near the tree. As you will see below, he loves it. The scary thing is that the tree fell right where he is standing in the picture below and where he and his Mommy are opening the present in the picture below that.

Sunday turned out to be a more fun or at least more normal day. Jacob and I went with David Parnell and the twins to do a little Christmas shopping to give their respective mothers a break. Of course, Suzanne does not know the meaning of "break" and she cleaned the entire house today. Thank you, Su, for making it so nice. When we got home, Jacob apparently still had mall fever because he kept pulling Mommy's shoes out of her closet and we caught him in the act trying one of her shoes on.