Note: The tree is sitting in a stand that is literally screwed into a ridiculously heavy piece of wood.

The kittens decided that our little Christmas Tree was the best thing since sliced bread. It lasted in our living room for all of 6 hours before Chris woke in the middle of the night to a number of suspicious sounds and found all 12 pounds of Dexter precariously perched in the top branches.  Now the traditional tree is in our bedroom and I never see it. To compensate for my sad Christmas Tree-less living room I decided to fashion a faux tree on the wall with lights and then hang all off the felt ornaments that I made this year on it. I realize that the whole thing is beyond tacky but at least I have some semblance of a tree to look at, and thankfully the kittens don’t bother it at all.

Now that we’ve survived Thanksgiving intact and all of the leftovers have been added to our annual winter “padding” it’s finally time to turn our attentions to my favorite time of the year: Christmas!

Today’s to do list included:

• Putting up the Christmas decorations (√)
• Writing out holiday cards (still in progress pending a few additional address confirmations)
• Baking something for CK’s Monday morning meeting (√)