We quickly set the tree up, grabbed a freaked out baby, and the wet presents and ran to our room. We unwrapped them, made sure they were alright and went back out. When we walked back into the front room the tree was again laying on the ground. Sigh
We tried our best to straighten the tree, got covered in sap, moved the presents by the piano, then gave up hope and leaned the tree against the wall. That was the end of it's beautiful life. The kids tried to make it look better by putting the ornaments back on it in one area, it helped, but it still looks defeated.
You can see the circle where the tree stood before, pine needles all over and a dark wet spot where some of the water spilled, and the blue towel soaking up the BIG water spot. Currently the sap spots can't be seen, I'm sure that will change in the next few weeks.
A while later Simeon and Johann re-enacted what happened. Ammon & Simeon were playing football( an illegal game I might add). Ammon told Simeon he had to run into the hallway to make a touchdown. Simeon changed directions at the last minute, stepped on the side of a present and went sprawling (entire body) into the tree.
We were able to laugh about it now.
Rebecca eventually forgave the tree for scaring her and reached out to grab it once again. The presents stayed by the piano and everyone was told to keep a distance from the tree just in case it fell again.
Lesson learned-NO balls or running of any sort near the Christmas tree, which already was the rule before this happened, but hopefully now the kids understand why the rule exsists.
2 comments:
That is pretty funny Kari. I'm glad no presents were wrecked.
Sounds like a good lesson learned. Too bad the tree had to go down. So did you get another one or just have a leaning tree this year? Glad nobody was hurt and the presents survived. You're good to be able to laugh about it:)
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