The cost:
- 3 hours of house cleaning.
- 2 hours of Elmo videos.
- 3 hours of decorating.
- 1 hour of kids (rotating through) sitting on the not listening chair for various offenses (yelling, fighting, picking up breakable objects, not doing jobs, etc.)
- 1 hour of cleaning up the decorating-- (quote from Ryan: "The best thing about this fake tree is how it sheds just like a real tree!)
- 1 hour of Seth coming out from his nap and declaring, "I had a nice nap, Mom" when he'd never actually been sleeping.
- 42 hours (or something like that) of Christmas music. (Muppets singing "12 days of Christmas", anyone?)
- 1 1/2 hours of grocery list making and grocery buying.
- 1/2 hour of putting up outside lights in 23 degree weather.
The Pay-off:
1 clean, well-stocked, holiday spirited place to come home to.
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