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Friday, December 19, 2008

O Christmas Tree, O Well We Tried

Last week Adam surprised us by bringing a Christmas tree home during his lunch break. What a sweetie! This morning the tree surprised us by hatching out hundreds of itsy bitsy spiders overnight. Today as I reached for the cord to draw back the window shades next to our tree, I could almost hear the theme music from "Psycho" playing in the background: EEee, EEee, EEee! (I think that's how it goes.) The cord was covered in baby spiders. Then I saw it--all over the tree: the webs. See them in this picture?

With itsy bitsy spiders crawling EVERYWHERE. They were so tiny my camera didn't even know how to focus on them, but here is my best close-up. Click the pic to make it big. You can see 2 spiders that look like they're floating in the air. They're realing crawling through their web. Ick!

The biggest bummer was that we never even properly decorated it. See what happens when you procrastinate? Adam came all the way home just to put the tree outside for me. No, I'm not that big of a spider-phobe, but I didn't want all those pokey pine needles poking my face. Isn't he a gentleman to rescue me from pokey needles. So now our Christmas presents are homeless. And I guess we're celebrating Christmas outside this year. But hey, isn't that the way Mary and Joseph did it?

At least they haven't touched our Christmas wreath.

P.S. Apparently we're not the first to deal with an insect-infested tree problem. Click here to read nie nie's WAY grosser infestation story. Now please excuse me while I head to Home Depot to demand a refund!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Fashion Show

Mom,

Look for your grandkids wearing all the seasons warmest fashions this winter. Here are Katelyn and Zach in some of their favorite ensembles, bought especially for our trip up north to see YOU (and Dad).