Yesterday after the shopping mania had ended, Chad dropped me off at my parents' house so I could decorate their tree with my brother and sister-in-law. (Thanks again, Chad.) Sarah is still too little to help, but she said, "Ooooo" when all the ornaments came out of their boxes. The first thing my brother and I did was dig for the most important ornaments. After we put up our eggs, which have our baby pictures on them, we go for the ones we made as children. His is circular felt ornament with a snowman on it. It's cute because instead of cutting out two round white circles for his snowman, he cut out a snowman shape out of the blue felt sky and then cut the white snowman shape to fit inside (so you can see some of the cardboard backing between the white and blue). Mine was a jar lid transformed into red felt and doily decorated frame with my third grade picture in it. There's a really ugly red and white yarn ornament that neither my brother or I will claim responsibilty for, but one of us must have made it for my mother to have kept it all these years.

My mother gave me a fake tabletop tree to put up in my apartment. It came with a short string of lights and some generic ornaments. I've been meaning to make some of my own mini ornaments and a tree topper out of polymer clay, but haven't found the time to.

Right now I should be getting my stuff together for my trip tomorrow. Matt and I will be on Maui visiting his family and taking a break from our day-to-day lives, so I'm not going to be posting for a while. It's not really a vacation if I spend it in front of a computer.