Bah Humbug!

What is a better way of getting ready for the holidays than decorating the outside of your house with Christmas lights?  Well, I can now think of a MILLION other things that I would rather do than this frustrating activity after my day today.  Hanging up the lights was something I always did with my Dad and I absolutely loved every minute of it.  We would spend the entire day up on the roof hanging lights, talking, and if it was snowy, playing in it.  So I thought this would be a great opportunity to make memories with my kids.  WRONG!  Here is how it went down at my house.....................

Aaron spent two days hanging 2 strands of lights (that's an engineer for you).  Ha!  He measured every clip to make sure they were all straight and even.  Here's my proof that he is an engineer at heart.

I thought it would be a wonderful surprise for Aaron if I hung up the other 7 boxes of lights that we bought.  I put Anne in her pack and play, gave the boys toys to play with in the yard, pulled out the ladder and I was ready to go.  Well................. 2 1/2 hours later, Anne is crying, the boys have both stepped in dog poop (no, we don't own a dog), I nearly crashed the ladder through the window, dropped my entire bag of clips on the ground (scattered everywhere), John is now crying because he fell in dog poop, and Stuart keeps climbing the ladder asking me if we are done yet.  My holiday spirit started taking a turn for the worse when I look up and I notice that I only have about 2 feet left on the roof and then I am DONE!  HOORAY!  

Then the unimaginable, horrible, unexplainable thing happens........................I place the light strand on top of the roof so I can move my ladder over to finish this last bit of lights and I see the light strand start falling off the roof.  Within a matter of 5 seconds, all my hard work (7 strands of lights) came off the roof like watching dominoes fall over.  I watched in horror as all the lights fell off their clips and onto the yard below. 

Stuart ran around the house following the lights falling of the roof with the look of shock written across his face.  He puts his hands on his cheeks (about to cry) and shouts, "Momma, what did you do?????????". 

I started laughing so hard that I nearly peed my pants, then the laughing almost turned into sobbing, then I sat down in the grass and pouted.  SERIOUSLY???  DID THAT JUST HAPPEN??

So much for stringing up the lights!  The lights ended up in the bushes and that's where they are going to stay this year.  :)

Bah Humbug!