Well, she arrived today!
That song has been one of my favorite Christmas songs since I was in high school! I didn’t know it was a girl for the longest time! Actually, I found out the first time I compiled an All-Time Christmas Faves list for my blog in 2013.
Sean and I used to go to our local Hallmark store to get ornaments every year! We stopped doing that in 2006. That was a difficult Christmas for me for sure! That was the first Christmas after my Dad died.
I saw a post on Facebook a while ago and I looked through the 2018 keepsake ornaments. I saw this one immediately and I had to have it! It plays music!!! I was not able to order it until Wednesday and it said that it would come the day after Christmas so I thought I would not be able to unveil it until next year but then I got an email this morning that told me this ornament was out for delivery and it would be delivered by the end of business today!
I was so excited! I got even more excited when someone knocked at my door because I knew that was the delivery person! Sean brought the package in and he thinks the ornament is kind of stupid! Once the batteries were in, I pressed the button that plays the music only five or six times because I didn’t want to wear the battery out!
When she was in my tree though, I had to a few more times! And yes, the hippo is a girl because she is lavender and she is SO FAT!!! I LOVE it because all I wanted for Christmas is this hippopotamus ornament!