http://fridayplaydate.com/i-got-your-falala-right-here-baby/ entirely true, but exaggerated for comic effect Mon, 21 May 2012 12:08:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://fridayplaydate.com/i-got-your-falala-right-here-baby/#comment-28573 STL Mom Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:52:23 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/i-got-your-falala-right-here-baby/#comment-28573 My brother and I had our own tree, and it was one of those shiny aluminum ones. The real tree in the living room had nicer decorations, but it was more fun decorating our own because my mom wasn't moving everything around to make it more "balanced". It took hours to decorate that tree, because the lights and then the garland and then the hundreds of ornaments and then the tinsel all had to be hung perfectly. It was fun, except for when it wasn't because Mom was driving us all nuts. Now I've given up on good taste completely and I let the kids pick out a fake tree with huge multi-colored bulbs AND small white bulbs, and that's the one in our living room. It hardly matters that they bunch up the ornaments, because they will move the ornaments around every day from now until we take the tree down. The only ones I handle are the fragile ones at the very top of the tree. I've also gotten rid of most of our Christmas decorations, so once we put up the tree and hang some lights and bows outside, we're pretty much done! Low stress, and the kids do almost all the work. That's my kind of holiday. My brother and I had our own tree, and it was one of those shiny aluminum ones. The real tree in the living room had nicer decorations, but it was more fun decorating our own because my mom wasn’t moving everything around to make it more “balanced”. It took hours to decorate that tree, because the lights and then the garland and then the hundreds of ornaments and then the tinsel all had to be hung perfectly. It was fun, except for when it wasn’t because Mom was driving us all nuts.
Now I’ve given up on good taste completely and I let the kids pick out a fake tree with huge multi-colored bulbs AND small white bulbs, and that’s the one in our living room. It hardly matters that they bunch up the ornaments, because they will move the ornaments around every day from now until we take the tree down. The only ones I handle are the fragile ones at the very top of the tree.
I’ve also gotten rid of most of our Christmas decorations, so once we put up the tree and hang some lights and bows outside, we’re pretty much done! Low stress, and the kids do almost all the work. That’s my kind of holiday.

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