Trying to prepare for the holidays

Though the holidays are all about children, children do make holiday preparations very challenging. It is almost impossible to wrap presents with the girls' "help," and there's always the off chance that I'll accidentally wrap up one of the girls (since they keep finding boxes to climb into).

And I hate to suggest that I'm keeping score, but so far this year four of my Christmas ornaments have been broken. I have already glued one back together, but I guess I thought those plastic Hallmark critters were tougher than they really are. Because the ornaments keep breaking, and since I can't convince either girl to simply leave the ornaments on the tree, my tree is pretty sparse with decorations this year (outside of the lights and garland).

Always helpful, Amelia seems to have found a solution to my problem of how to decorate the tree without risking more breakage. Today I found a cluster of her stuffed animals on the tree and she seemed very proud of what she had done.

Why didn't I think of that before?

Lisa