Decorating the tree gets to be more fun every year
‘Cause the girls are getting old enough to really help out now
Which allows me more time to drink wine supervise
I never usually get pics of the decorating, ’cause I’m the one decorating
And Diamond too
He does all the stuff at the top of the tree
Where you need to be on a ladder to reach it
Me and ladders?
We’ve never gotten along
I think I inherited that from my mum
Just ask her about the ball on the roof in Kalgoorlie
Basically, ball on roof + a ladder + my mum
= a trip to the dentist
Anyhoooo
The girls were sooo into it yesterday
We had the Christmas carols cranked up
The kids had hot chocolate
Diamond and I had booze did not
As we were putting each ornament on the tree we were saying which ones were our favourite & why
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Diamond’s choice?
He loves the shit out of this god awful singing Elvis decoration
He’s had it from before we met
He also used to have a butt fucking ugly Elvis wall clock
Which mysteriously disappeared when we moved in together
Tragic
But the Elvis ornament is still around
I reckon it was maybe from an ex-girlfriend who gave great head or something
‘Cause every year when it comes out of storage, he gets this ‘look’ on his face
Anyhoo, it’s his favourite
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Miss 6 loves her Barbie ballerina one
Mrs Claus gave it to her last year
FYI – Mrs Claus knocks on our door every Christmas eve, and leaves a Christmas ornament, book and Christmas PJs for all of us
She’s a pretty cool chick that Mrs Claus
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My fave is the Shrek one she gave me last year
Which has nothing to do with the fact that Miss 4 totally looked like baby Shrek until she was 2
I also like my Aussie ornaments
I have heaps of them
And my best mate Sammy sends us all a new one every year from the middle of fucking nowhere the little town she lives in
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Miss 4 loves her Piglet ornament she’s had since she was a baby
It nearly got beaten out by this little shiny rocking horse this year
Until she realised it wasn’t made of chocolate
I didn’t have the heart to tell her that chocolate decorations are banned in our house
Ever since the Christmas of ’02
When I had a raging case of PMS was feeling ‘peckish’
And started nibbling on the chocolate ornaments on the tree
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And kept on eating until I nearly choked on the angel
Moderation has never been my friend
I have bought my kids a ornament every year since they were born. My tree is heavier than my ass now (well, maybe not). I want Mrs. Claus to knock on my door…she has very cool taste in ornaments! Must say, I LOVE The Shrek one too!
The Holy Season and your tree pic has me thinking religiously… “Thou shalt not covet thy Jenny’s tree”! Nice job!