6-8 inches? Yahoo! (It’s amazing if we get 1 inch…)

Well, even if you don’t get very much, at least it looks pretty.

The day after Thanksgiving we put up the fake Christmas tree (which always sheds those little green strips from the branches all over the floor) and discovered that we don’t have enough working Christmas tree lights, so we drove to our grandparents’ house and borrowed their tub of lights to find that they were mostly colored lights, not the white ones we wanted. So we put up the working lights that we had and asked some friends to pick up some lights for us at the store. So later that day they dropped them off and we added them to the poor tree, which had gone for a while with only two-thirds of itself lit up. Then we added the ornaments we had picked out—we have to pick out ornaments each year because we have too many to put on the tree—and added a Christmas tree skirt, and voila! we had the Christmas tree.

We also put little bows on the stairway leading to the attic, and decorated the dining room windows with festive decorations, but the Christmas tree was the main adventure.

Oh yes, and this year I put a strand of colored Christmas lights around my bedroom door. (On the inside of the room, so I can enjoy it.)