Hanging Up Christmas

Well, after we got the tree into the house . . .


and decided maybe it was a little too tall (our house has 10 foot ceilings, btw, just to give you an idea of how big that tree is--and we cut down one of the smaller ones) . . .


we cut a little more "off Christmas" (as Bitty Bit says) and then started decorating.

After the lights are on (we did blue and white this year), our tree experiences a selective blizzard. I make snow (will put the "recipe" in the side column) and let the Bits spread it on the branches. Which means the lower branches end up with a LOT of snow and the upper branches only get the light dusting that I spread on.

The floor ended up with some snow as well--which took a surprising amount of effort to get off considering it is JUST soap and water!

Then it was time for ornaments . . .

I let the Bits hang a lot of them, which meant the tree is again a bit bottom heavy. Bitty Bit thought the tree looked cool with several ornaments on each branch.

I thought about rearranging things, but decided that this was part of our tree's personality this year.

The tree isn't "perfect", the snow isn't "perfect", the ornaments aren't "perfect."

But altogether, I would say it is a perfect combination.