As I said yesterday, I put up my excellently fake Christmas tree:

Before Thanksgiving, I was so jazzed to start decorating for Christmas, so I was surprised when I couldn’t muster up the enthusiasm until yesterday. To be fair, I did have to bring up a table from the basement to set it on AND I had to find a stool to stand on to reach the tree at the back of the closet. Seemingly insurmountable obstacles, but I overcame.
After I mentioned the polar bears last night, I had to go through all the boxes in the basement until I found them. I’m sure I’ve mentioned my Breyer horse collection before (high five, Alicia!) — they now reside in cardboard boxes, and there were quite a few to go through before I found the bears. But I was determined by that point. Hmmm, one of these things is not like the others. I have to start wrapping presents so Beany won’t think I’ve set up a special cat display table.


Pretty! Hooray for perseverance!
How funny! I finally got up the strength to put up my fake xmas tree yesterday!