Busy Season and a nothing year

So we skip from Friday post to Tuesday post in what was suppose to be a daily Christmas posting of the First Gift of Christmas Story. The truth is that December is a busy month with many activities and those activities overwhelmed the writer this weekend. And that was coupled with the fact that the year 2000 was the year we moved into 9860 Ballantree and it was decided that the village maybe was complete and there was no need for a first gift anymore. So there was nothing to add. The village was set up on the same foyer table in the new foyer and Christmas was celebrated in our new house. I might add at this time that since we now had a sun room with a 20 foot ceiling everyone thought a bigger Christmas tree was in order and that would consume our decorating time. I think the tree we brought home barely made it through the sliding door and had to be trimmed to put the star on top. The height of the tree was overwhelming as was the circumference. Since then we have continued to put the tree in the sun room but we have chosen smaller trees. I am still convinced though that the tree can grow a foot or two on the drive home.