For some reason, I still haven’t hit that Christmas mood yet, and it’s less than two week away.  I hope I get that Christmas feeling soon.

We’ve been slowly decorating the house, and most of our decorations are up, including the lights on the house, which have been up since Thanksgiving weekend.  The one major missing piece is the tree.

Last night I got a burst of energy and decided to set up our artificial tree, with the thousands of lights that are conveniently already intertwined on the various branches.  My first task was to get to the Christmas tree box, which was thoroughly blocked in by the accumulation of a year’s worth of other junk.

Instead of moving the junk out of the way, I decided to bring in the tree piece by piece.  I had the bottom of the tree set up and plugged in the lights only to discover that only about half of the branches lights were working.  I spent a good hour trying to get the lights to work, to no avail, when my wife said it was time for Babito to go to bed.  As I was taking him upstairs to give him a bath, he said “Daddy’s mad at that tree.”  He was right.

After Babito was in bed, my wife and I tried to get the lights working for a while, but we had no luck.  We’ll be Christmas tree shopping tonight.

Wanna see what Santa Claus is bringing Babito this year?  I feel safe sharing it here with you, because Babito rarely reads my blog.  (Smart boy!)

Here’s his gift:

It’s the LifeStyle Grand Walk-In Kitchen.  He loves playing kitchen at his day-care.  We found this one at Toys R Us when we stopped in late last weekend to get my nephew a birthday gift.  The salesperson told us that if we applied for a Toys R Us credit card we could get 25% off on all our purchases that night, so we ended up doing ALL of our Christmas shopping for Babito and our nieces and nephews on that night.  The kitchen was on sale, plus we got an additional 25% off, so we got a great deal.

Here’s the product description from Amazon:

This deluxe kitchen not only has realistic features, but is modeled after today’s deluxe contemporary kitchens. “Oak hardwood” foam flooring gives the kitchen a warm, comfortable feeling, and over six feet of spacious “granite” countertops provide ample room for cooking and dining fun. Large sink has swivel faucet with push button, and “stainless steel” refrigerator provides valuable storage. Built-in cabinets and drawer feature authentic handle hardware.

103-piece accessory set includes: frying pan with lid, boiling pot with lid, silver pan with lid, silver pot with lid, coffee pot, 4 stainless steel cooking utensils, strainer, 2 plates, 2 bowls, 2 cups, 2 knives, 2 spoons, 2 forks, peppermill, salt and pepper shakers, 5 spice jars, pot holder, 2 wicker baskets, electronic phone, and 64 piece play food set. Durable, poly construction wipes clean and lasts for years. Also includes an 11″-tall wood stool for countertop dining.

Lucky Daddy will be putting this thing together on Christmas Eve night.  I read the reviews on Amazon and a grandma said it was easy to put together.  A single mommy said it took her three hours and it was a total pain.  I don’t know which one to believe.  I just hope I don’t hear Babito say on Christmas morning that “Daddy is mad at that kitchen!”

Tags: Babito, Christmas, Daily Life, Family