The Christmas Tree

For years I have put up Christmas the day before Thanksgiving. Usually it only takes a few hours, and I generally don't have problems putting the lights on the tree. Not this year, I remembered this morning that I had a strand or 2 of bad lights. So Scott & I went to Wal-Mart and gone a box of 100 lights. Got that strand on and found another one that was bad. So this time I went to Walgreens in Kaysville and bought another 100 lights. I started this project around 11:00 before breaking to go to Wal Mart. When I went to Walgreens it was around 2ish, when I got home and pulled the lights in only half worked of my new box. Back to Walgreens I go to exchange. These work and I have one strand of 50 lights to put on, I'm not going to have enough to finish the tree. So back to Walgreens for the 3rd time to buy another box of 50, this time I buy 2. Buy the time I finished decorating the tree and putting up the rest of the Christmas decorations it was about a 5 hour project. I didn't get any baking done for Thanksgiving, I didn't think it would take all day to do the tree. Maybe it's time to invest in a tree with the lights already on it.