Tis the season

Mercy my dear friends. You will certainly have to forgive me. I had such good intentions of keeping you up to date on the goings on at The Cottage at the End of the Lane - but I must tell you, that the holidays are no less busy for we monkeys than for all of you people out there.

I did take many pictures though and here is the picture that I promised you of our little monkeys decorating our Christmas tree. And what fun they had too!.....well, for the most part anyway.

Meg, Mildred and Miffy talked Micah into helping them with the tree. They spent a good part of an afternoon stringing lights and ornaments until it looked just so. Now you have to understand that Mildred is....how shall I say this?.....well in the words of some of the other monkeys mind you....a control freak! She would place each light on the string exactly 4 inches from the last light placed (she even used a ruler just to be sure!)

As Mildred painstakingly worked her way around the tree, Meg ever so stealthily repositioned the lights in a less than perfect position. Mildred was so intent on what she was doing, that she never noticed until she plugged in the lights and stepped back to admire her work.

Mildred freaked out! She knew without asking which of the little monkeys had done this deed. In the first place, Miffy would NEVER even think of such shenanigans and Micah seemed totally unaware of what the problem even was. But Meg on the other hand was doubled over in laughter in the corner of the room - unable to even pretend that she had nothing to do with the lights. Meg laughed so hard and so long that it wasn't long before she had everyone else laughing, even Mildred. Mildred just hates how Meg can manage to make her laugh even when she is still very very mad, but that is the long and short of it. I'll just bet that each and everyone of you know someone like Meg, don't you?

Mildred then made Meg take the lights off of the tree and she started all over again. By early evening the tree was perfectly decorated and after supper was over, the monkeys disappeared into their bedrooms to finish their Christmas lists for Santa.

Peek in a little later because I have a lot more stories to tell you, but I must hurry off now because there is a big sale at the Mall and with a family as big as ours, I can't afford to miss out!