today we continued with Christmas traditions and we watched some cheesy Christmas movies and put up the Christmas tree. We have only done the indoor one so far but soon we will get front porch tree up as well. Last year I picked up a set of 600 LED lights. I had bought some white lights last year and they were just too bright and white. So, I ordered a string of other lights that can be changed to so many different colors. The nice thing about these lights is that it can do soft yellow light. The bad thing is that when you blink you see red and green from the lights. But, it does tend to grown on you the more you look at it.
Tonight we watched the movie Family Switch and both kids seemed to really enjoy the movie. The movie we watched as we put lights on the tree was called Best Christmas Ever which gave Eva plenty of time to make all sorts of snarky comments through the movie. She’s quite funny when she wants to be.
One of our other traditions is to get the Hallmark photo ornament each year. I printed out this year’s photo and then put the ornament on the tree. As luck would have it the ornament was placed near one that was from 10 years before. We should now have one for every year as a family.
I took the weekend off so that we could get some Christmas traditions done together as a family. Eva had to be at school on Saturday and Sunday to prepare for the upcoming play next weekend. We had the evenings to do those things that we’d been trying to get done. Things like visits to La Salette, trimming the tree and more. Before we went to La Salette we had a few other things to do.
Last night I went to ABD and picked up a new dragon for Andy. One of the guys that I had earned my black belt with saw my post about andy’s birthday dragon and his son decided to make Andy another one on his 3D printer. It was incredibly nice for this kid to do and he’d never met Andy before either.
Later on Andy and I went to see the movie Merry Little Batman at the theater in Dedham. We had free passes as well as free drinks and popcorn to enjoy while watching this cute animated story that takes place at Christmas. It was a story about batman and his son, Damian. Andy and I enjoyed it.
Tonight we went to La Salette to see the lights. It was completely packed tonight because it was such a mild night. We enjoyed the lights and the little nativity scenes. They had completely revamped that room and made it much less claustrophobic.
After La Salette we went to Blue Moon for Thai food for dinner. We normally go to Bliss but not this year because we went there last week with my Aunt and Uncle.
