Every day, I use my tall stiffer duster to knock spider webs off the tree topper, and the next day? AN EVEN MORE HORRIFYING WEB APPEARS. Tomorrow, I expect it to say SEASON’S GREETINGS, and the next day, I imagine the spider will eat us all.
Clearly the tree we chose was someone’s home, and I only hope the giant egg sac hatches AFTER the big day when the tree and all its residents are outside again.
Dorothy’s dance studio takes an academic style break, so we have a few weeks off from dropping her and picking her up. This meant that last night when we dropped Coop off at dive, we could go eat garbage for dinner! Usually, we also have to drop Dorothy off at dance without enough time to stop anywhere but also a little TOO much time to get there perfectly, and she has to arrive awkwardly early and eat packed food while Minnie and I go home and eat with whichever other kid(s) can join us. Garbage dinner is so much easier!!
And listen! I DO come close to resenting all the time I spend driving in terrible traffic to the busiest part of town and then through the other busiest part of town at rush hour every night. But then! I SEE HOW AWESOME HE IS (check him on the 7.5)
I agree with Elisabeth’s holiday tip to eliminate excess packaging, but avoiding boxes makes for easy-to-guess gifts.
(But! I still have to figure out a few Eve things, and there will be some assembly OF COURSE. Gah).
Three cheers for winter break!!
Poor spider and poor you! (And poor me, I'm allergic to spiders and am on the verge of developing sympathy hives from reading that. lol)
ReplyDeleteDid you mean NYE when you referenced needing to "figure out a few Eve things"? I'm not even thinking that far ahead!
Christmas Eve-- I am not to NYE yet. I still want to do so much more reading before thinking about turning the page (LOL) on 2023. How is Santa wrapping his gifts is the biggest head-scratcher. AND ALSO WHEN
DeleteSanta doesn't wrap gifts at our house because Santa is DONE with wrapping things by then.
Delete(This is Sarah) I wish that was a tradition I had started from year 1!!!!
DeleteYup! Santa at this house does not wrap gifts. And mom and dad exclusively used heavily reused amazon gift bags or other gift bags for wrapping. I love wrapping paper but I love sleep and reading more lol.
DeleteThanks to reading blogs and listening to parenting podcasts, Santa doesn't wrap gifts in our house either! I never would have thought to skip this. Santa wrapped his gifts in my home of origin. Not happening here!
DeleteSanta wraps gifts here, too, and boy I wish he'd never started! :(
DeleteOh all you non-wrappers! Come tell me this SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, OKAY???
DeleteSuch relief that it's not NYE! Christmas Eve is always candlelight choir, and then we open the books and pajama gifts and move on to cuddles and reading. So I feel I've got that sorted.
Delete(Sarah)-- we open new PJs but then there is the scramble to set up the morning. This year we are adding a fancy dinner and a white elephant gift exchange...
DeleteWisconsinite to Wisconsinite, can I make a confession to you? I think Culver's is gross. I think their food is gross and their "custard" is oily yuck. Do I have to get kicked out of the state now?
ReplyDelete(This is Sarah) I LOVE the garden fresco salad from Culver's--
DeleteFave fast food salad (except Chipotle). But! I HATE custard.
Wow, those spiders are BUSY. Dang. Charlotte is really earning her keep in the family with all her busy work at night.
ReplyDeleteWe are pretty much ready for Christmas but everything feels so precarious as we will test the boys on Sat am to see if we can celebrate Christmas as planned.
I hope they’re negative!! Also, I prefer to think of it as a SINGLE SPIDER, OKAY?
DeleteSarah, your tree spider is giving me anxiety. I am sure it will be FINE though! Yay for athletics breaks and yay for adorable sister time!
ReplyDeleteME TOOOOOOO. Thank good ness we have one of those spigot things so I don’t have to get close to water it because OH MY GOD.
DeleteCharlotte! It's Charlotte! You have Charlotte in your tree!
ReplyDeleteI hope so!
DeleteI just can't believe you have to juggle gifts for both Hanukkah AND Christmas. GAH!
ReplyDeleteSooooo many presents
DeleteThe spider ate your family - that line killed me. Crap though - that is an unsettling development. Don't you have like 6 trees or something? I hope the spiders decide to head back outside where they belong.
ReplyDeleteThat dive - hold crud. That's awesome. I jumped off the high dive in August and I almost didn't survive.
Your organization and gift buying being basically done is making me jealous.
I LOVE YOUR CHRISTMAS POEM!!!
DeleteI am sure that little Charlotte will be very happy when the tree goes back outside, and she can be back in her real element. She is probably so confused about where she is and why the heck this big creature keeps damaging her home every day!
ReplyDeleteI just Googled the gestational period (?) for spider eggs and it is three weeks. However, it says that they stay close to the nest for several weeks after that, so I am guessing that the tree will be long gone by the time they want to spread out!
YIKES
DeleteIt could be worse. Just sayin'. (Sorry for the source...)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/texas-woman-speaks-finding-opossum-hiding-christmas-tree-dont-know-how-got-here
Hahahaha— I saw the baby owl story too!!
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