We love the fact that our business is growing. But it has interfered with some of our Christmas traditions. At the very least, it has pushed many of them back from the first half of December to the second half of December.
For example, we finally got our tree up this week. We could have put it up a bit earlier, but it was kept outside at the place we bought it, and so it was covered in a layer of ice from the ice storm. We really didn’t want to bring that in the house, so it sat outside in the sun for 3-4 days waiting for the ice to melt off of it.
I’d like to say that the children were patient.
But they weren’t.
We finally got it up and the children decorated it:
We did do something new this year – a Christmas video. It’s almost finished.
The video part came out great! The audio, unfortunately is a bit rough.
Some of you may know that this video is the singing debut of the Jonas Family.
Some of us are really good.
Some of us (me) are not. LOL
We talked about singing it with head phones on so we could hear the music. But we decided against it b/c of the little kids. We thought we could get close enough to the music singing it a cappella.
Unfortunately we thought wrong.
Actually, Jim and Indigo nailed their parts, and Fletcher and Hewitt did really, really well too.
But our one group sing – it’s pretty bad. LOL Maybe we’ll release the off-key version after we release the on-key version. This assumes of course that we can get on-key in the studio tomorrow when we go in to re-record the audio track.
The result will (hopefully) be awesome audio to go with our awesome video.
Other than finishing the video, we’re ready for Christmas.
Actually, the children are over-ready.
I fear the presents are becoming a bit too tempting:
We actually started unwrapping a few of them in the video (they were in unidentifiable boxes). When we made them stop and started re-wrapping them, Jade and Indigo burst into tears. (Note to self: need to do a better explanation if we ever attempt that again.)
It wouldn’t surprise me if they went into a frenzy and started ripping and tearing off wrapping paper. See the fixation:
Fortunately, it’s almost Christmas!
Oh… poor Jade and Indigo 🙁 My son, Nicholas (2.5 years old), knows exactly how they feel! I was wrapping presents in front of him (stupid Momma…) and he saw one of his gifts and started getting really excited, it was a train set. As I wrapped it and covered it up he burst into tears. Now when he sees all the presents under the Christmas tree he will say, "No nnooooo" and point at all the presents. Poor little guy, lol.