I know several people who go to great lengths to baby proof their Christmas trees. Apparently I was one of those people last year. We put up our tree the weekend after Thanksgiving and got the ornaments out of the basement. They sat in the Rubbermaid box near the tree for several weeks because in the craziness of the end of the semester, ornaments weren’t really a priority.
Then last weekend, we went to take our Christmas card picture and I thought I could throw on some ornaments on the part of the tree that would show. Umm…not a single ornament in the box had a hook. Because last year when I was pregnant and my asthma was out of control and I was supposed to be laying on my left side as much as possible, I had decided that ornament hooks were unsafe. So I took them all off with the idea of adding ribbon for a baby safe Christmas tree.
Only I never added the ribbon. I never even bought the ribbon. So we will leave for Arkansas next week with a fabulous pre-lit Christmas tree that has exactly 2 ornaments. Capone’s 2009 ornament and the ornament I bought for Rakicy and me.*
Next year some one needs to remind me (probably in August) to start tying ribbons on ornaments or we may have a very sad tree again.
*Rakicy and I have bought and labeled a Christmas ornament each year since we were married. They aren’t the cheese Hallmark ornaments, but we write the year on each and try to find one that is symbolic in some way. This year we decided that we would continue to buy our ornament, plus get and label an ornament for each child. Someday, Capone will have an entire set of ornaments to start his Christmas tree with.
