They Just Don't Understand

Wednesday night my husband and I had to make a supply run to the home improvement store. After we looked for the supplies we needed, we ended up in the holiday section. Low and behold, I found the very thing I was lamenting not being able to get earlier this year. On QVC I had found the coolest thing during Christmas in July - a lightshow programable tree - I was only able to get one, they were out and back ordered. Then the news via e-mail they would not be getting any more this season. Oh, I wanted 3 of them. Whoo, hoo, these looked like the one I had gotten, but I could not be sure of the brand. Then the other item I have been drooling over ( a wirless, musical, lightshow that makes your Christmas lights flash to the music) was on sale. My loving husband made a special trip back to that store after we had visited the other home improvement store to get everything we needed, just so we could get these items (just between you and me, I don't think he is nearly as Grinchy as he would have me believe).

Yesterday while the boys were at school and Mike at work, I unpacked my treasures. The brands of the trees are the same!!! The wireless light show is cool - not as sophisticated as the real big displays they show on TV, but good enough for now. Now I have drawn out the yard, and am working on my design for our outside decor. My boys (all 3 of them) didn't realize the planning that goes into this stuff. We only have 3 outside outlets, only 4 wirless recievers to make the show, and a huge yard. I also need to balance it all out on the breakers so I don't blow the circut. I can't put lights on our tall house (afraid of heights), Mike won't have time with all there is to do at the rental, so I have to figure a design that won't look like I just forgot to light the house. I also don't want to be the house that looks like Christmas just "threw up" in the yard. You know the ones I am talking about - everything imaginable is in the yard, every square inch occupied by something. Nothing goes together, it's just an over whelming mess. So the planning continues. I want to be starting to put up the lights outside on Nov 1, so I have it just the way I want it by Thanksgiving. I guess the real big shows in people's yards start going up in September, so Mike should be grateful we aren't that big - yet.