Our trees are up and decorated. (And have been for a few days.) I got the new Augusten Burroughs' Christmas book, You Better Not Cry (http://www.amazon.com/You-Better-Not-Cry-Christmas/dp/0312341911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259522073&sr=8-1)- and refused to start reading it until I could enjoy it next to the tree. Even though our decorating has been done for a little while, last night was the first evening I really had time to sit down and dig into my new book. And, it was worth the wait! Augusten Burroughs (www.augusten.com) is my favorite author. He is probably most well known for his book, Running With Scissors (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=running+with+scissors) which was made into a movie in 2006(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439289/). His writing is laugh-out-loud (literally) funny. Matt doesn't even need to read his books, because I read almost every paragraph to him, "Ok, now listen to this..." It may come out someday that all of his stories are lies, but I wouldn't even care.
My favorite chapter from last night pertained to a kid that Augusten went to grade school with whose birthday happened to be the day after Christmas. Convinced that this poor kid was deprived of gifts - surely his parents just wrapped some of his Christmas presents in birthday themed paper - Augusten considered this a 'birth defect'. I thought it was particularly funny because my birthday is a mere four days after Christmas.
Well, enough book reviewing. The photo below is of our family room Christmas tree. It is adorned with white lights, both big and little, although it's a little hard to tell in this photo. This is the tree that gets all of our cherished ornaments - no matter how mismatched they are. (The leather chair is where I read my Christmas stories.)
We have our 'pretty' tree in the dining room/Otto's room - where it can be seen from outside by passers by. (The family room tree can really only be seen from the bike trail - which is technically 'closed' at night, so this tree really shouldn't be easily seen by 'outsiders'.)
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