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Post by Cathy on Dec 20, 2006 18:17:17 GMT -5
LIGHTS That stay on!
OMG, I am sitting here a few days away from Christmas, with a tree with no lights on top... no lights on the bottom. It is too pathetic and yet too funny.
Guess when I said I would just be happy to have John home, I didn't realize that God has such a great sense of humor!
Cathy
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Post by Valerie on Dec 20, 2006 20:01:53 GMT -5
Could be worse, I thought when I first started reading that you were going to say you had no lights in your house! Besides, aren't Christmas trees supposed to look pathetic when you have kids? All the decorations have been stripped from the bottom half of mine, the star keeps getting knocked off, and there are no bows left on any of the presents.  |
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Post by laurasnowbird on Dec 20, 2006 21:14:55 GMT -5
Let's not even talk about what is going on with the tree at my house.....LOL!
Cathy, the dumb rain that we keep getting is making my outdoor lights go off, because they are plugged into an outlet with a ground fault circuit interuptor, and when they get wet, they trip the ground fault! I'm not used to this, it is usually cold and frozen, so no water on the cords. What a crock!
And thank goodness God does have a sense of humor, or he'd have probably gotten sick of all of us a long time ago, LOL!
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Post by Pat on Dec 21, 2006 8:34:12 GMT -5
I thought it was your house lights too when I read the beginning of your post. LOL
One year John, DH, had 7 hospital visits right at Christmas time & couldn't even finish helping putting the tree up. I was so pooped I let the girls decorate & no one noticed that the top third (where they couldn't reach) was bare except for the lights.
Pat
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Post by momofrussell on Dec 21, 2006 8:36:53 GMT -5
LOL.. oh you all are giving me a good chuckle this fine Thurs AM with sick kids! Sorry about the tree snafus and Laura's out side lights.... But isn't that what they say....
Tis the Season to be JOLLY? Well, it's jolly alright! ;D
a.
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Post by Jessie on Dec 21, 2006 10:27:45 GMT -5
Laura - they make covers for those you know! LOL
Yes, lights have been an issue here too. Guess when you have seven thousand trees in your house a few are bound to have lights give out. Of course, it's my main tree in the living room that only has about half the lights working. The one good thing is that the lights I have wrapped up the trunk of the tree are still on so it's not as if it's bare in any particular spot, just not overall very bright.
And, well, the garage tree could use some serious help . . . if it wasn't the garage tree. I just need to let it go that it's not perfect . . . !!
Jessie
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Post by Debbie on Dec 21, 2006 16:01:04 GMT -5
We don't put up a Christmas tree anymore. We used to, well, my Mother did but she got tired of putting it up, decorating it and putting it down every year. Sad to say, my father and I did not help her much since we were doing our own thing at the time.
My favorite thing is just being with my family. I was extremely blessed that we had power in our home while the ice storm forned. So many around us didn't and some still don't. And I am blessed to live in a warm house. I feel sorry for those who don't have a place to live.
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Post by MB on Dec 21, 2006 21:41:00 GMT -5
I have Christmas movies from my childhood where the tree was in a playpen to protect it from the 6 children born in 7 1/2 years.
mb
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Post by laurasnowbird on Dec 21, 2006 23:12:41 GMT -5
Seriously Jessie, did you think I didn't know about the covers? LOL!!!
Nope, the problem lies somewhere else. There are soooooo many strings of lights out there, and somewhere either a cord that ends without another string plugged into it is getting water in it, or we have a connection that isn't tight enough. I'll have to go try and find it again tomorrow. Thought maybe I had it, but it's raining tonight, and BLIP! off goes the lights. Where the h*ll is my snow?
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Post by Jessie on Dec 22, 2006 10:14:51 GMT -5
LOL Laura!! I was just giving you a hard time, because, well, life has been just too easy for you lately!
Things would be much easier if there was snow on the ground, I know.
Jessie
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Post by Cbean on Dec 24, 2006 12:07:48 GMT -5
Too funny guys. Yes, Cathy, God has a very wicked sense of humor. Trust me, I know. In fact, I think he's laughing so hard at me these days I can actually hear him! Hmm, 1 y/o developmentally, yet right on track with the bad attitude of a two year old. Yup, that's wicked and just not fair!!!  |
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