Our Makeshift Christmas!

As many of you know, our lives got turned upside down this last year, and we are temporarily living with family until we can get a better paying job or find something cheap enough to rent.  So, lots of our stuff is in storage, including all of our Christmas decorations and supplies. 

We had decided to just not have a tree this year, since we couldn't get to it in the storage unit and we tried really hard to find the stockings, but didn't succeed.  Plus, even if we could get to them, we didn't have room to set the tree up anyway.  Well, the girls kept begging for a tree and kept saying "Santa can't come and leave presents if we don't have a tree!"  So, we improvised and made ourselves a tree.  And for stocking the girls each colored a picture and put their names on it, then set it on they couch where they wanted Santa to leave their stocking items.

Here is a picture of the tree the girls made an decorated.  As ornaments they have some they made at school, and received as gifts as well as some made out of paper and glued on.  I thought it turned out quite nicely.

Here is how our tree looked after Santa arrived.  Looks like the girls got a little spoiled this year.  Thanks Santa!