Christmas is Coming

I just hung a string of lights above the couch in the alcove, which was… interesting… with the girls “helping” and spouting “Christmas tree lights!” the whole time.  I took advantage of what I learned wiring the office to do a nicer arrangement with the lights this year.  Since we have shades over the top third or so of the windows, they are mainly for our benefit.  The trick is to use long twist ties looped over the suspended ceiling girders, twisted together with the wires hanging from them.  I also used push pins at either end, and an electrical tie to bundle the extension cord and light cord loose ends together more neatly out of the way.  It’s all more out of their reach than last year.

We’re probably not going to hang ornaments on the tree.  Which is not supposed to have ornaments anyway, being one of those little fiber optic jobbies, but it worked okay with them.  My soldering job has held up all this time.  That’s the one I bought that was defective, so I had to bypass the switch.  To turn it off, you unplug it.

Heh.  I just sang the interjections song to Sadie, who is standing here wanting something and refusing to speak.  That made me realize that at some point Schoolhouse Rock would be great for them.  Just today we remembered that they need twin sheets.  Even when we give up on air mattresses, they will get twin mattresses, and we have no sheets at all.  We’ve been making do with full or queen.  So yeah.  They could each use at least one set of twin sheets, and given the ages involved, it is not out of line to have several sets between them.  That’d be a hard thing to have too many of if disparate people got the same gift.

On the agenda, I am going to try making Deb a light box to get better photos for the shop.  Kind of hard to put a pile of new stuff there and have a promotion this week if you can’t get pictures.  That frees up the cart we use for shop pictures for the little tree to go on, and frees that spot in the kitchen for the high chair.

I decided filling the large red socks, if not gifting in general, required a list, so we worked on that today.  The girls are easy.  Henry is tough.  I’m trying to remember what we put in Sadie’s when she was just a month younger than him.  All I remember is the Eeyore poking out of the top and taking up a good chunk of space.  Probably teething toys were the main component.

I haven’t decided where to hang the stockings.  Deb bought one for Henry recently and wrote his name on it earlier, so that’s drying before we hang anything.

Sadie will mainly get art supplies, I think, and Valerie mainly a Play-Doh set.  I’ll see what I can get that they don’t already have out of the $1 cartoon DVDs at Wal-Mart.  I expect the two of their stockings will have things like toothbrushes, hairbrushes or combs, gummy creatures (50 cents a package for cool gummy alligators and octopuses at the liquor store/redemption center where I take our cans), maybe crayons, maybe pencils, maybe stickers, little cars, maybe some fruit or trail mix, other candy, maybe small pads of paper, that sort of thing.  The trick is not to spend too much or have too much.

I tried to get a feel for what Valerie would want by touring the stationary and toy sections when she went to Wal-Mart with me.  She was mostly unresponsive, apart from generic “shiny thing” responses and attempts to grab stuff in reach.  She seemed most enthusiastic in the doll aisle, especially when it came to littler dolls and figures, including ponies as well as humanoids.  She didn’t react when shown the Play-Doh, even though I know she’ll love being allowed to have some.  I forget where else she reacted.  It was something like the musical instruments or trains or such.  Oh!  She loved the soft stuffed dogs.  That may be what I’m remembering.

Okay, back to work.  If I stand up, I may not fall asleep where I sit, and Sadie just came asking for drinks for them.

1. HI,Merry Christmas, My granddaughter loves to dress-up. We go to Goodwill and look for prom dresses, slips, dance costoms what ever pretty material we find and make “tutu"s with some elastic for the waist. We’re lucky we do have many Goodwills and cosignment shops around are area, found many great deals.Good Luck in 2008.CC

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