Traditional Christmas Mishaps-1

You probably have your own Christmas traditions like we do.  A couple of our traditions are putting up & decorating of the tree & making Christmas sugar cookies.  Since I do these projects only once a year, the traditional mishaps follow suit with the activities.

The TREE :
        To begin the tradition, I put on the Christmas music, need hot chocolate in hand & maybe some popcorn by my side.
        Many years ago our first mishap was just getting the tree in the stand.  What an ordeal.  Cutting the bottom of the tree, (so it would soak up water; only if I remember to water the tree), & cutting whatever branches that needed to be cut so it would fit into the stand.  Then you would have to balance the tree hoping it wouldn't fall over.  We finally got smart & bought one of those tree stands that all you have to do is step on the peddle.  Awesome invention!!!  For us, one year this didn't even help because, the tree fell over the night before the morning of my neighborhood Christmas party.  Oh brother!!!  :-{  For the most part, the stand has been a huge improvement.
        I'm sure we all have stories to tell about the lights for the tree. Even after testing all the lights before putting them on the tree, they still seem to go out sometime during the season.  This year was no exception, at least they went out before we put the decorations on the tree.
        I was raised to believe that it was the man's job to put the lights on the tree.  This tradition continued when I had a family.  The only problem about this tradition was that I am a "back-sit light putter oner"   I love the tree a blaze & Dave loves a sweet twinkle.  Dave got smart a few years ago & started letting me put on the lights.  This year he called himself the Coat Hanger-meaning; be quiet, hold the strains of lights & do what I say.  I must say that he had me in stitches until the lights malfunctioned  :{

        How about over flowing of the Christmas tree.  One year this lead to a remodeling job of redoing all our wooden floors.  We were planning to do this job anyway, but now we had to do it.

(This year all the unbreakable ornaments begin half way up.)

          Dave hates putting up a Christmas tree.  He likes it once it is done.  He just doesn't see cutting down a perfectly good tree, go through all the frustration & then throw out the tree in a month or less.  Dave loves me dearly, but this year he said, "If I happen to die before he does, & if he remarries, he is going to marry a  Jew :} "
                                                                     ann :)