The Tree is Up

I've been fairly absent here lately, mostly because of the approach of the holidays. On the weekend, when I normally might find time for a bit of blogging, we were busy with holiday preparations. On Saturday Sarah had a birthday party for a friend at a place where the kids can paint clay pottery; then immediately after we went to the Middle East Institute's holiday gathering at the President's home; she was gracious enough to invite kids so Sarah attended, along with a colleague's son who's close to her age.

Sunday was tree day. The photo shown here may be a bit askew composition-wise, but that's because it was taken by Sarah. I took over 30 minutes of video which is going to take some processing before I can put it on YouTube due to their limitations on length.

We got a somewhat smaller tree than in past years at Sarah's request, so she could reach more of it to hang decorations.