A Girl With a Sword

put the lights on the tree!

We have a tree in our house! Took long enough to get it here, though. First, the Christmas tree farm we were looking for wasn't there. Then we stopped at a roadside place and they were nice and friendly people who lived in trailers like gypsies. They tied the tree to our car and we went to Target and World Market to get stuff to put on it. Sandra had lots of ornaments already, but I didn't have any. I got a Indian man and woman:

(the man)

a dragon:

(the dragon)

and a little bird. It's like a fairy tale! So then we brought the tree home and went to put the stand on it and it didn't fit! This tree is about 7.5 feet tall, and the trunk is about 6in in diameter at the bottom. So Sandra went to look for another stand while I stayed with the tree in the parking garage downstairs. We wanted to put the stand on down there so we didn't get pine needles everywhere. But after Sandra called to tell me her car had broken down in the Target parking lot and she was waiting for the tow truck I got the tree off the car and took it upstairs. Big tree, little girl. It was crazy. Then I went to pick up Sandra from Target and we finally got to set up the poor tied up Christmas tree. It was like a picture of bondage in our living room and then we impaled it with those screws in the Christmas tree stand "This reminds us of Jesus," I told Sandra, "which is what Christmas is about."

But now it is beautiful:

(glorified Christmas tree)

And we are listening to this French Christmas CD that Sandra has that reminds me of the old 1950's Italian music. Sappy, but in a foreign language and Christmassy, so it's all okay. It's called Petit Papa Noel.