a tree-less christmas

We have stacks of plastic storage containers in the garage containing an artifical tree and all the lights and deco that goes along with it........it is still just sitting there as it has been since we put it away last year.

*I* personally can not lift and carry those boxes into the house. The dh is *always working so he is useless. The teen ds is always either at school, work, or wearing my nerves thin so he's useless. The teen dd is too busy with her heavy acedemics and trying to help me keep up with the other things around the house so I hate to ask her. And the two younger boys could maybe put together a funny-looking lopsided tree if anyone would ever carry the stuff into the house for them...............so we still remain treeless and it almost feels at this point that there is no point.