Oh Tannenbaum

I think that everyone has one thing that they are really obsessed about. Mine is really quirky. I'm obsessed with Christmas tree lights. I can't get enough. It's taken me two days to get the lights on my tree. Every year I buy more lights. Regan thought that our tree was growing because this year I have bought so many more lights along with the ones from last year. Our tree is fake. I think that I've probably spent over $100 dollars on stupid Christmas lights yesterday alone! I went back to the store 4 times, for more lights just yesterday and still had to have Scott stop at the store on his way home! We even blew out a fuse last night! I have to get a couple more extension cords, I think.

I totally know where this came from. When I was a kids there was a house down the street from our Cabrosa house. Every year at Christmas time I loved to drive by their house at night because I thought they had the most magical tree of lights in their front window. Since then I've tried to get that same tree in my window. I'm sure if I were to see that tree now, I'd probably be totally underwhelmed. I'm sure that my memory of it was much better than the real tree, but I think that this year my tree has finally matched my memory. I think I have roughly 4500 lights on my tree. I KNOW! Scott just laughs, my kids think it's great and even Zoey says WHOA when the lights are on. Of course, she said that when I plugged in every strand, but I choose to interpret it my way! I'll try taking a picture of it tonight after I get the plugs all worked out so we don't blow another fuse. Although, lights on the tree never look as good in a picture as they do live, so if you live in the area drive by my house instead, it's much better in person!