Norman Rockwell or Clark Griswald?

Yes people tis the season once again. And as I have mentioned in the past I was going for that Norman Rockwellian thing again this year. Go here to last years NRC to see how well that worked out for me. So this years plan involved me taking last Friday off of work to trim the tree, bake cookies, shop and generally Fa La La La La. We were suppose to have purchased our tree the weekend previous, but do to sick children that didn't happen. So I decided we could get it on Thursday and put it up so the branches had time to settle before we decorated it. Thursday came and went with no tree because the kids and myself were sick. Friday morning I was not doing well at all, although the kids were definately on the upswing. Bless Ethan's heart, he did his best to make things go smoothly. He made breakfast in the morning, but all cavities in my head were full of snot so I barely ate. It's hard to eat when you have to stop breathing for the process.
The day mostly involved me drugging myself with cough medicine, sinus medicine and cough drops. By 1:00, Ethan had the kids ready to go and dragged me out of the house. We bought his parents their gift and went on to purchase our tree. We did succeed in putting the tree up, but that was it.
Saturday, again I was too sick to do the tree.
Sunday, Ethan and I put on the lights, but after 2 strands I had enough and said 300 lights sound good enough to me. Then we did the garland. I am usually very particular but this year I just threw it on. Hell I let Jacob wrap it around the tree. I was a little bummed no ornaments were up so when E came home from work he put the ornaments on for me (I did help some). We were very careful to put the fragile glass ones at the top.
Did I mention I had asked E to secure the tree to the wall? yeah, well. When I came home from work Monday the tree looked "off" to me. It took me a bit before I realized the tree must have taken a spill. I'm not sure how many ornaments we lost. I've been collecting ornaments for my tree for 32 years so this hurts a tad bit. But it is all just material and at least the tree didn't come down on the kids or anything. BTW, the tree is now secured to the wall. In fact it is tied so tight it is tilted toward the wall and most of the remaining ornaments are facing the back. I really need to fix this. lol.