Setting up the New Christmas Tree
Hello to everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!
Xavier's Grandma Penny flew in for Thanksgiving this year.
This worked out for us quite nicely. Rebecca walked in the door, back from her three weeks at Andrews AFB, just after one o'clock in the morning on Wednesday. Penny arrived about ten hours later.
Of course, it's always nice to have Penny for a visit. But now, Rebecca had help cooking the feast (my contribution was to buy everything Rebecca needed; I have never cooked a Thanksgiving meal, nor cooked an 18 pound turkey, so it's best that was my primary contribution).
Rebecca, Xavier and Penny went shopping for some items, most non-food related. Rebecca had also found a sale on artificial Christmas Trees. Since the one we have saw its best years several Christmases ago, we agreed the budget could be bent to afford a new one.
Prior to Thanksgiving Day, Xavier complained every time he saw Christmas decorations, whether in a store, or someone's house, or the neighbors stringing up lights.
"It's Thanksgiving, Daddy! It's not Christmas yet," he would tell me.
That tune changed on Friday. We had a new tree and Xavier wanted to set it up and decorate it. He also thought it would be fun to decorate with Grandma Penny (who left for Fort Collins to help Chelle arrange her apartment to make it convalescent-friendly—Chelle has knee surgery next week).
Xavier wanted to wait til Sunday for Grandma Penny to decorate. However, he did not want to wait to set up the new tree. That, we did on Saturday.
After setting it up, Xavier thought the tree needed something more. He thought his train (a gift from Aunt Chelle two Christmases ago) around the tree would be that special something.