You know you're hosed when you're 6:30 a.m. looks like this...
And your 7am looks like this...
And then your get-the-kids-the-heck-out-of-the-house-because-Daddy-needs-to-study trip to Lowe's involves one hour in the carpet section...
Followed by 20 very long minutes of tractor "riding"...
Followed by a sneaky trip to the Christmas decorations...
Which ended up looking like this...
In the end, we were gone all morning and came back with Chick-Fil-A, two new Christmas decorations, and two tired kids. Mission accomplished.