How to get a Christmas tree home.....

In and out of being sick, we were able to get to the city centre for our Christmas tree.

Then the question arose as to how we were going to get it home. I'm still on a "no car" kick which does make things like this......well, challenging.

We explained the need to Emma of sharing her trailer with the tree. She kind of looked at us funny. Then I said to her, "it's kind of like sharing your space in the trailer with Eddy. You don't really want to share the space, but you really want him to come over for a play day." Well, that seemed to work! So, we squeezed Emma and the tree in for the ride home. And we all made it safely. It was a bit "pokey" for Emma but she managed well. In fact, I couldn't believe our luck with how they put netting around the trees to get them home! So convenient!

So, the tree is up and decorated. It even has a few gifts under it. Emma has made a beauitful wrapped picture for me (hiding in an envelope but clearly pointed out) and she has decorated Christmas trees to put under it. They are actually the pointed parts in the egg cartons and are green. She glued decorations on them and they turned out pretty cute! See what happens when you're sick for TOO long? You get creative with what you have at home!

We leave this Friday afternoon for Germany. We are all excited for this! We'll stay at Philip's parent's home and have his sister and family to visit with as well. It will be fun to watch Emma and Philip's two nephews play. They did great last year, so it will be interesting again. Gregor is a couple of days older than Emma and Lawrence is 2 years younger. They are "boys" so I'm sure Emma will tattle on them a bit.......

I think that's it for now. Emma has her Christmas party at school tomorrow: we're bringing napkins and jelly sandwiches (they are serious about this "no peanut butter" rule.). I'll let you know how this party compares to parties in the states!

Hope you are all well and enjoying the holiday season!

Sick.......again and again!

Ok, well most of you know Emma had Scarlet Fever and then I had Strep. Well, Philip has been sick this week too. And, what do you know.....Emma is home again today with a fever! 101.48. So another cozy day at home feeling miserable. I'm still on my antibiotics, Emma finished hers yesterday and now we've all got a nasty cold or something. Ugh!

I promise to post more later and add some photos. We got our Christmas tree over the past weekend and wandered around the city some. It's been frosty cold at night and in the mornings, which makes it feel like Christmas is almost here. Oh yeah, it is!

The only thing I've done is get some cards mailed out, ruin my first batch of fudge (with the ONLY jar of marshmallow creme....they don't sell it here!) and have done NO shopping. I did a tiny bit in California.....tiny!

We're just wishing for a healthy holiday now. We leave on the 19th. Let's hope for the best!!!!!