Well mission 2 for this Christmas season has been accomplished - the Christmas tree and associated decorations have been assembled.

We started last night with chief toddler Little Miss overseeing the project before quickly recognising that this was possible a bad idea. It turns out that toddlers, while naturally bossy, make for very bad bosses.

So the tree project was quickly abandoned once the tree was assembled and the first set of flashing lights had been set up. This was more than enough to satisfy a quickly tiring and increasingly bored toddler.

So there it sat, a half completed Christmas tree, like some bad sculpture sitting there as some bad social commentary on the commercialisation of the western world and religion in general.

After everyone went to bed it was left to me to finish putting up all the decorations - the tree, the flashing lights, the flashing santa for the window, the various hanging ornaments for around the place.

It took until 1:00am but it is now all done and ready for the waking in the morning of the heard.

Then it is off to the in-laws for a bbq lunch and the beginning of the round of Christmas related functions, things like
office christmas parties, friends parties, family gatherings etc. Only 24 days to go!