the Christmas season starts

Last weekend we put up our Christmas tree. I wanted to do it early because I knew we'd be busy most of the remaining weekends in December, and I wanted plenty of time to enjoy it. It turns out that we have enough non-breakable ornaments that the bottom three feet of the tree don't look as stupidly bare as I feared they would. Will had fun helping us decorate, though he seems to prefer removing ornaments from the tree and putting them in the litter box.

Today it is snowing for real and there's actually some white stuff on the ground. Too bad Will and I are stuck inside with miserable colds. Actually it's my cold that is miserable. I think he'd be fine going outside and playing in the snow, but just thinking about it makes my ears hurt.