Last night I was so keyed up for today. I had a million things to do, and many of them were fun. It was also supposed to be Bethany's first day of preschool (finally!), and I'd been getting her worked up for that, too. Well, it all went to pot when Bethany woke up this morning and I saw her goopy, swollen, pink eye. Of all the days for this to happen, why today? So of course all my plans went out the window. No preschool for Bethany, no grocery shopping, and the added doctor's appointment set me back on just about everything else. And while we were at the doctor's, Bethany suddenly reverted to her panicked state when confronted with anything doctor related. She absolutely freaked out, enough that the doctor left the room, saying he was going to go see his next patient, and then he'd be back. While he was gone, I kept talking to Bethany telling her that she had to let the doctor see her eye, and finally she said, "Fine!" When he came back, she did cooperate--barely--but she insisted he keep his little flashlight thing at least twelve inches away. Whatever. At least we got some eye drops so she can go to school. We didn't get them until almost 4:00, so she won't get to go until Wednesday, but there's not really anything I can do about it. I'm using the drops on Meagan, too. This morning she was fine, but by bedtime her eye was three times as swollen as Bethany's was this morning, while Bethany's wasn't swollen at all anymore. Hopefully this will be a quick illness, then. I just hope that Sean doesn't get it, too.
I'd like to say that the day at least ended on a good note, but it really didn't. I'd promised the kids that we'd decorate the Christmas tree for Family Home Evening. With everything going on today, including a fussy Sean who wanted to be held a lot, all I managed to do by dinnertime was bring the tree upstairs. My ideal way of decorating the tree starts when kids are in bed. I like to put the tree up, and put on the lights and garland by myself, without kids running around like crazy. Then I like to sift through the ornaments, and choose which ones to put on the tree and have them all ready to go when we decorate it all together as a family. It's much less chaotic that way, and I get to interact more with the kids as they are putting the ornaments up. What really happened was I put the tree up while the kids finished dinner. Sean was afraid of the tree at first and screamed bloody murder, so I was trying to hold him while finishing spreading the branches. Then I put the lights on the tree while the girls ran around and screamed in the background, and Sean crawled in circles around the tree and grabbed lights and pulled himself up to standing for the first time. When I finally got the ornaments out, they were grabbing them and putting them on the tree as fast as I could get the hooks on them, so I didn't really get to help out with placement or anything else. Now that they've gone to bed, I need to redistributethe ornaments. But I don't feel like it. I'm just sitting here, messing with the laptop, and not even wanting to do any other decorating at all. Maybe I'll just have the tree up this year, and nothing else.
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I think your tree probably looks fine with the ornaments all on the bottom half :) We haven't even had a chance to get the tree out yet.
We also inherited a tree with the house, it was in the garage the first time we looked at the house, but has been in the yard since then. I'd just as soon toss it, but Kevin wants to look at it first. I want him to wear gloves when he opens that box.
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