For this child I have prayed.......

Well, the tree it up and decorated. It is not THE TREE, you know, the gigantic one that is in 4 sections that are too big and heavy for me to lift on my own. That tree is still wrapped in the tarp we store it in, down in the cellar. The Big Prince is in a walking cast (we are waiting on word from the MRI to see if more surgery is needed or if he just needs to let the foot heal on its own) and there was just no way for me to get THE TREE up the playroom stairs alone. Compound that with the fact that The Princess is standing, and has taken a few steps, thought not walking alone yet, but can crawl as fast as Dash on the Incredibles. I was beginning to imagine her climbing, like a kitten, all the way to the top of the 10 ft tree, knocking ornaments hither and yon and putting all of the rest in her mouth. I had images of her little mouth crunching on mercury glass....shiver.......

So, The Big Prince and I scouted other locations in our home that would work for us to put up a smaller tree. Finally, we deemed the corner of the breakfast room as the best spot. I could get a 7.5 ft tree and it would not look goofy in that room, since it has 8 ft ceilings, as opposed to the living room's 12 ft ones...and we figured that by placing it in the ocrner, The Princess would not bother it as much and we could also corral her out with chairs from the table.

The decorations, roughly 1/10th of them, are on the tree and it is very cute. I may just put this one up every year for a while. It was so much easier! It is not as impressive, but it works for me, and right now, simple is so much more appealing.

As I put decorated the tree, I remembered back to last year as I took them down....I had wondered as I put each ornament in it's box if I would be a mommy of 2 then next time I unpacked them to go back on the tree. I knew then, that if the adoption went through, that this year, I would have an almost 1 year old.....it seemed like such a dream....

I'm here to tell you......that dreams do come true.......
For this child(ren) I have prayed.....1 Samuel 1:27