How lovely are your branches

First, by way of apology, the only reason I haven't been blogging is because I haven't been doing anything besides playing 'hot lava hot lava' with Nuni

 

 

 

 To make it up to Nuni, we got her a Christmas tree. Nuni likes Christmas trees because a) she thinks she's a present and b) she prefers pine-flavored water to nothing-flavored water.

 

 

We take great care in choosing our Christmas tree. Typically we like tall ones that have grinch-head type tops that hit our ceiling (see 2009)

This year, we switched it up and went with a shorter, but dumpier fuller tree. Like our minds and our home, our tree ornaments are a horrifying disaster charming motley collection. Here is a catalog of my favorites

On the top of our tree is, of course, the crowning glory

Ducky finger puppet!!!!! My explanation? At the boston bazaar bizarre a few years back I was in search of my first Christmas ornaments to put on my own first Christmas tree. I didn't see any sick ornaments that I loved but you bet your hole I loved these wonky-eyed animal finger puppets. Luckily, tree branches are shaped like fingers. Finger puppets courtesy of soto softies

How could I stop at just one? I couldn't.

Lion gets sad if you don't put him on the right branch

 

A more traditional favorite is my favorite scene from How the Grinch Stole Christmas

 

If you look closely you can see my star of david ornament in the background. This is because we don't celebrate Christmas, we celebrate family.  

Jealous?

 

Another classy feature of our tree are the three types of lights

Mini

 

Large bubble

LED

Thankfully, Nuni doesn't really disrupt the tree except for drinking the potentially poisonous water. And watches over the other ornaments while we're gone