Or a M*A*S*H unit

We put up the Christmas decorations today.  I can’t decide if that excites me or irritates me.  By Christmas day, I’m so sick of the tree I’m ready to take it down immediately.  It’s huge and hulking and in the way.    At least for now, the tree is lovely and every surface of the house is covered in Christmas bacchanalia. 

We’ve been collecting a Christmas village for the last couple of years.  It started with a Nutcracker scene: 5 large porcelain pieces representing a ballet studio, a theater, a music shop, a bakery and a large castle.  All of the buildings light up and several of them have moving pieces.  For example, in the theater, the Rat King and Clara dance about.

My Honey has added all kinds of people and little vignettes to the village including ice skaters and snowball fights and stuff of that nature.  We have scores of little tiny fir trees covered with snow and adorable snowy animals.  Last year we added a toy store.  There is a white cathedral we inherited from My Honey’s Nanny that fits in nicely as well.  This year he added Frosty’s Tree Lot and a little scene of a deer eating a snowman’s carrot nose right off his snowy little face.  He also replaced the Santa because he was mysteriously broken last year.

So how long do you think it took for the tree lot to be broken?  Did you guess 35 seconds from when it was removed from the wrapping?  Oh, you guessed too long.  Did anyone admit to breaking the sign off?  If you guessed Sassy immediately pointed at her brother, this time you would have guessed correctly.  Of course he insisted it wasn’t him.  Whatever.  Our entire village had to be shored up with super glue before we could put it out. 

My Honey had a conversation with the boy wherein he informed him, in no uncertain terms, that the Nutcracker Village was NOT to be attacked by GI Joes.  The Nutcracker Castle is not COBRA command.  There are to be no aerial assaults, no tunneling under the snow, and no open slaughter of the happy inhabitants of said village.

It is my opinion that next year we see if we can find a scale model of a little Red Cross Hospital to add to the village.

Radar would have seen this coming