Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree......it's that time again meaning I need to start hinting that we will need to get the tree out soon. I start a week in advance to give Travis plenty of time to get into the Christmas spirit and look forward to bringing the man sized box from the garage into the house. Normally he has the harder job with lugging it into the house but this year I think I had it pretty bad. I was so happy to have the box in the kitchen and played Christmas music in the background. The kids went and showered and I had a great goal to get the tree up before they were done. I opened the box and realized that I had a visitor. Now I have some major fears in my life, when Travis is out of town, very bad dwarfs (it's a scary story my mom told me that I have never quite recovered from), forgetting a child somewhere, Al Franken being elected, and most of all cockroaches. One of my biggest fears entered my family room that night. Yep, you guessed it Al Franken stopped by.....OK, not really but I did have a cockroach visitor. I still shudder when I think of the cockroaches I encountered and cousins teased me with in Florida. I would sleep on the top story of my cousins 3 story house when staying in Florida thinking I was safe until Josh informed me that cockroaches fly.....I never got very much REM sleep in Florida. Needless to say I shrieked and broke out in a cold sweat as the cockroach scuttled away from the light trying in vain to find safety. I did kill it which took all my will-power. Then I sent the sad kids to bed - no decorating that night - as I combed through every pine bough on my Christmas tree trying to find out if my special friend left family or the hope of family in my Christmas tree. I squealed, squeaked and screamed a number of times that night as I found not one, but 2 more special visitors. Which then led me to have a near panic attack thinking that if they are in my garage then common sense tells me that they MUST be in my bed - of course! I killed all known and seen cockroaches, mopped the floor and vacuumed the family room. I stripped my covers off my bed and still had nightmares. Yes I have cockroachaphobia but really who doesn't? I think they are the vilest insects on the planet. After de-roaching my house we set up the tree and had fun decorating our tree. For some reason the tree decorating ceremony didn't have quite the same magic as every year preceding it.....
All in all the tree turned out pretty well!
Travis sitting back and watching us create our tree masterpiece and enjoying his peeled grapefruit. Yes, he peels it - we've been married for almost 13 years and I still think that is weird.
Taylor is still into all the princesses but especially Tinkerbell. She still sports a Tinkerbell lunchbox. I love it! Bring on the princesses for as long as we can.
Merry Christmas 2009!
1 comment:
Your tree looked great! I share your cockroach phobia...didn't see one for the first time until Brad and I were first married and visiting Jeff at Optometry School in S. Cal. Jeff thought it was fun to quickly turn on the kitchen light in his apartment and stab them with forks as they tried to scurry away! Still makes me cringe to think about it!
PS - Brad peels his grapefruit! Must be a Canadian and/or Tollestrup thing!
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