Our Griswald Christmas

How do I start? It was close to 1am...we had just finished watching 'White Christmas'...Ashley & Jon had gone on up to bed...and I had just sat down on the couch to read while I waited on Chris to get home from work......when C-R-A-S-H...our tree comes tumbling down! Scared the poo-doo out of me!! When I turned around it was like slow motion... I saw the light fixture swinging back & forth & it was like my brain was just waiting for that to fall to! About that time, Jon comes running to the top of the steps & said he knew exactly what had happened! Evidentally one of the little screwy-things didn't do right on the stand....but who knows what caused it to fall when it did?! I'm just very thanful that no one got hurt. There was water spilled & running everywhere, glass/ornaments broken all over the place.....it was a MESS! But of course, being the 'Memory Keeper' that I am.....I had to pause in the midst of all this & take a few pictures. ;-) All my broken & slavaged ornaments....along with icicles clinging to EVERYTHING!
Just some of the mess & broken glass


The tree is once again standing in the corner...TIED now to the stair railing! I have managed to untangle all the beads, but still need to untie all the lights & see if they even work. Will get that done after supper & then let the kids decorate the tree AGAIN! And ya want to know the kicker in all this...............Clay SLEPT through the whole episode. Never knew a thing until I came upstairs to bed at almost 2am....he got up to go potty & I told him since he was already up, to go peek down stairs & take a look at our tree. :-P MEN!!