Christmas Time!

Every year the little town that I live in has a big parade at night and the night is known as our light up night! This is the best time of year for my kids as they enjoy this parade so much more then the others that they see the rest of the year. Although we always FREEZE it's nice taking out hot chocolate and being with family to watch this amazing parade. Since I live right in town I always try and decorate my house for Christmas before the big parade. So this year like every year I decided to tackle the task by myself! Every year I change the I decorate giving the neighbors something new to expect. I always try and stay very simple but Christian like and I try not to over do it. I live right across the road from a center that takes care of elderly people. Most of the people living in the building have their motorized wheel chairs and several of them sit on the porch and watch the neighbors and the things that go on during the day. So I take on the decorating of my house during the afternoon while my kids are at school expect my youngest. He is well entertained with his Elmo movie and is cuddling with our dog. I decided this year I was going to wrap our two front windows with wrapping paper and put nice red bows on them. I couldn't wait! My theme this year is red and gold. I started the wrapping process thinking this was going to be an easy task. How hard could it be right?? Well on this nice cold day it was also windy! I had a nice crowd of wheelchair watches and I went right at it! My windows are very tall so I needed to get something to get me up higher onto the house. I'm up there about to start unrolling the wrapping paper. I have my handy tape with me and I'm all set! I get up there I get it taped to the top of the window and a big gust of wind comes along and there goes the wrapping paper!!!! I look over to see a few of my neighbors laughing at the site. Oh no I was not giving in I was getting that window wrapped if it took me all day!!! UGG!!! After an hour of just trying to get one wrapped and my neighbors getting such an entrainment out of me I decided forget this I'm waiting for my husband! So my husband gets home and he gets the other window done in record time and I'm sitting there in disbelieve! He is bragging up his window and just how wonderful it looks and it's perfect in every way! Right down to the bow being perfect in the center. So I go to work and later on that night when I get home I come home to find my window still decorated perfect but my husband's window was not the same! The bow he put up was falling down and the top of the wrapping paper was coming down as well! So I had to wake him and tell him that maybe the next time he should take his time a little more because my not so perfect window was perfect!!!! I'm still not done with my master piece yet and will take a picture of it to show you all once I'm finished. The big parade is on Saturday night but I am sick with the flu now and hope I'm better by tomorrow so I can finish it!