El Crismas espiri

Today, when poor Geni will have spent nearly 12 hours at her most-feared place (the vet's) having her glucose charted so we can find out why her insulin injections aren't bringing her blood sugar levels down, I decided to raid the Martha Stewart Living aisles at Kmart in search of some cheery Christmas Spirit.

Once in their Christmas Shop, I was like a child in a candy store, albeit one on a very limited budget. Thus, I didn't actually do a lot of raiding, but I did get a few cute (to me) decorations, like this tiny tree, its tiny ornaments, its tiny tree-top angel, and the tiny, shiny tinsel wreath.

I was a little dismayed this weekend when we went to our storage place to get the Christmas decorations only to find that they are absolutely inaccessible. Christmas has always been an important holiday in my family, and I guess I've grown up with the need to deck my halls. I was looking at a rather (and already) sad Christmas without the decorations I've collected over the years, one more casualty of being in an interim place until we sell our house and/or find a new house for ourselves.

That's why TV advertising works because I recently saw a Kmart ad for the MSL ornaments and decided to pay them a visit. Say what you may, Martha Stewart has impeccable taste so I knew I wouldn't go wrong, and I'm quite happy with the results.

This includes even hanging ornaments on the only tropical plant that can live in the apartment (thanks to Darwin, who likes to graze on everything else - notice that the points of the plant have been cut because Darwin munched the ones he could reach) in a very Puerto Rican way.

My poor husband, who's quite the Scrooge when it comes to Christmas, again showed how much he loves me by humoring me and not only hanging the pretty, colored LED lights that I got on sale at the drugstore, but also by taking pictures of all my new Christmas decorations so I could show them in this post. I guess he'll go along with anything that makes me blog "about happier things," as he said when he sent me the photos by e-mail.

For better or worse, decking our tiny apartment with the tiny Christmas decorations today made me smile all afternoon long, and that alone is worth their weight in gold. Now let's hope Darwin doesn't discover the tiny tree and the tiny ornaments. At least he can't chew on the LED lights or the candle lights, like he tried to munch on the tree lights we had a few years ago, the last ones we ever had on an inside tree thanks to him.