We still decided to head out to pick up some stockings and other smaller decorations. I've yet to get my own grown-up stocking. Growing up, us three kids had the same matching stockings since I can remember. It's about time for an upgrade! Luckily, there aren't real or fake stockings so Lucas and I had a much easier time coming to a consensus on those. We got classic red knit ones with our first initials on them (so Santa knows which one to put all the chocolate in and which one to load up with fishing lures).
Roaming through the holiday aisles, of course, what did we come across? A fake tree -- a really small fake tree. We almost got it when we saw these cool (fake) pre-lit snowy trees with no leaves. I liked this idea because it's a little funky and contemporary but still a tree, and we can still use it next year to decorate one room while we have our real tree in another room. So while we both compromised, there's one thing I'm not getting much say in: Lucas' Green Bay Packers ornament. It's the only ornament he has or cares to hang up. As a Chicagoan, this is hard to allow. But since the Packers are having a terrible year, I figure it's the least I could do.
P.S. Yes, that is a little light up dog on the table. His name is Simon.