to tinsel or not to tinsel?

kevin's stocking is the moose. mine is the penguin. if only i knew when we'd have kids--i'd order two more without the customized names so the whole family set could match--yes, i have problems! i just think it'd be sweet to have the matching snowman and the black bear. i guess they don't have to match. i just have OCD..haha! anyway, we are still waiting. can't wait to open up our mailbox and find our two stockings waiting to be hung.

for some reason i really have christmas fever this year. i think it's because we have our own place. we have big visions for tree. we have to merge our ideas of christmas traditions into making our own. like, to use tinsel or not? or those bead ropes? or popcorn? i like the look and the idea, but monster will probably attack the tree to eat the popcorn. or what to put on top of our tree? an angel? a star? we can agree on ornaments and decorations (for the most part) so now it's just deciding what we like together. i'm big on tradition, so these decisions matter. i'm the kind of person that, once we pick an angel or star tree-topper, we'll use it forever. those are the little things that make up a home to me. like i said in an earlier post, we have been collecting ornaments for some time now so it will be so fun to put them on a tree. there's nothing like the first christmas :)