Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on December 4, 2016

So we’d better get that tree up! Yes! The day has arrived! Our tree is going up! We did decide on the purple and white lights that I mentioned before and I have to say, it looks pretty nice. I haven’t had a purple and white tree in ages but I do like it. Sam actually helped Mark and I string the lights this year, which she has never done. It is by far the worst part of decorating, so it was good to have an extra set of hands.

Some of the first ornaments Sam put on were her Ben and Holly ornaments from Grandmom. Every year, my mom gives her ornaments in the theme of her birthday party so this year it was Ben and Holly!

Sam forgot all about this starfish pirate we bought down the shore this summer. She was thrilled to see him!

We let Sam do a lot of the tree herself, and we noticed that the top of tree was looking somewhat bare of ornaments. Sam got a boost from her Grandmom, who came over to watch us decorate this year.

Sam was happy to find some photo ornaments we had made for past Christmases.

This ornament was labelled “to Pam and Mark from Smoke” who was my cat when I still lived at home. My mom and I had Sam going for a while about how Smoke had made the ornament himself. Sam wanted to know, How did he buy it? How did he write on it? Where did he get the paint? For every question, we had a perfectly logical answer. He was an extraordinary cat, you know! Sam wasn’t buying it, but she finally gave up and realized she was never going to win with her Mommy and her Grandmom teaming up against her. Mom logic trumps all, little girl!

Sam had quite a dance party under the disco ball ornament. Love her Saturday Night Fever-esque pose!

The cats were all too happy to help out. Do you notice what the box is labelled? Hmmm…do you think Penny can read?

Sam was in full out kid mode the whole time. She was so excited, jumping around, singing, and having the best time.

Penny tried to be helpful, but chomping on all of our ornaments is not helping…

These cats are looking for trouble! It didn’t take long for Penny to climb in and Zach was not far behind. Thankfully, he is better behaved and a quick “NO” made him get right out. Yeah, Penny doesn’t care.

Does this look like trouble, or what? Notice the sandbags protecting our tree from toppling? We need those. Trust me.

We made sure to hang only non-breakable, non-edible ornaments down low. As you can see, we would lose a few if we put anything breakable there. Sam had fun playing with Zach though, and since the ornament is wooden, go for it!

My little ham. She has to pose for everything. 🙂

Dance party!

Now it’s Zach’s turn to be helpful…

Penny had fun laying in all the paper that the ornaments were wrapped in (and eating it…sigh) so Sam decided to try it out for herself. She said it was mighty comfy!

The tree finally did get decorated so we could relax.

Note the bells underneath? Yeah, that’s the cat alarm system. Anyway, in typical cat fashion, Penny couldn’t wait to lay under the tree. I love to see a little furball under there, just not climbing. Sam went it to join her to see what all the fuss is about.

Happy cats…

…a happy kid, and happy parents. A good night. We’re all ready for Santa!

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