Christmas Tree
Well, here's our tree:
And here's Oliver hiding under the tree:
He thinks the water in the basin that the tree sits in is put there for him to drink. He also thinks the ornaments are there for him to bat. Communicating with cats the real purposes for things can be difficult.
Our tree is actually kind of sad. We didn't get it until last Saturday, and there were hardly any left in the Home Depot lot. The one we got has a huge "hole" in its side, but we just turned that side to the wall. It's not too obvious, I guess.
The thing is, Mark and I are not big Christmas people. In general we try to avoid all the hubbub surrounding the holiday and keep things low-key. We're not ANTI-Christmas, we just don't like all the madness and commercialism. So we waited until a week before Christmas to get our tree, and we paid the price for it by getting kind of a crappy tree. Oh well.
We also don't exchange Christmas presents with adults (other than each other), and we just focus on getting presents for Catri. Once baby Gwennan comes along, we're thinking of imposing a 3 present rule for her and Catri. It might be kind of a hard adjustment for Catri, but we don't want Gwennan to grow up thinking Christmas is about GETTING presents. We'll shower her with gifts on her birthday instead.
By the way, we've chosen the name Gwennan for the baby. Gwennan Grace Rothnie. Gwennan is Welsh and means "blessed". We'll probably end up calling her just "Gwen", or possibly Gigi, if her personality fits that moniker.
And here's Oliver hiding under the tree:
He thinks the water in the basin that the tree sits in is put there for him to drink. He also thinks the ornaments are there for him to bat. Communicating with cats the real purposes for things can be difficult.
Our tree is actually kind of sad. We didn't get it until last Saturday, and there were hardly any left in the Home Depot lot. The one we got has a huge "hole" in its side, but we just turned that side to the wall. It's not too obvious, I guess.
The thing is, Mark and I are not big Christmas people. In general we try to avoid all the hubbub surrounding the holiday and keep things low-key. We're not ANTI-Christmas, we just don't like all the madness and commercialism. So we waited until a week before Christmas to get our tree, and we paid the price for it by getting kind of a crappy tree. Oh well.
We also don't exchange Christmas presents with adults (other than each other), and we just focus on getting presents for Catri. Once baby Gwennan comes along, we're thinking of imposing a 3 present rule for her and Catri. It might be kind of a hard adjustment for Catri, but we don't want Gwennan to grow up thinking Christmas is about GETTING presents. We'll shower her with gifts on her birthday instead.
By the way, we've chosen the name Gwennan for the baby. Gwennan Grace Rothnie. Gwennan is Welsh and means "blessed". We'll probably end up calling her just "Gwen", or possibly Gigi, if her personality fits that moniker.
posted by Donna-Marie at 12/21/2005 08:48:00 PM
1 Comments:
a lovely name!
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