Christmas tree blues

As a family, we decorated our Christmas tree Sunday night. It was fun to watch the kids laugh as they dug out ornaments they had made from previous years. Mitch and I made sure to hang the glass ornaments high on the tree and kept the plastic and lighter ones near the bottom. We knew Luke and Andrew would obey by not pulling on the tree....but, Abigail....well, that's a different story.

We had our tree up one day before Abigail brought it crashing down.

Here's our tree BEFORE Abigail got a hold of it:



Here's our tree AFTER Abigail pulled on the branches and barely got hit by the fake limbs:


We've bought two artificial tree stands and neither of them fit. We have one more store to explore before giving up and possibly buying a new tree. Heck, we've even thought up ways to make what we have work....sand, towels, rocks.....forget it.

Andrew mentioned to me today that he was sad the tree was broken and not lit up.
Me, too, Andrew....me, too.

UPDATE: THE TREE HAS BEEN FIXED!