The Curse of the Christmas Season!

I think everything is fine in our house for awhile...like the calm after the storm. Seeing how my family is snowed in today and getting out of our house is out of the question we as in my hubby and I thought it would be cool to pull out the PS3 Karaoke and do some good old fashion singing. The children love it and we get a kick out of doing some really bad singing. It's not like there is anything else to do other than watching children's shows over and over again until you don't have anymore brain cells left....anyway we were having fun and then the daughter disappeared. Nothing wrong with this because she doesn't have to sing if she doesn't want to and she went off and played on her own. The hubby and I were getting into the singing and the boy was joining in the best way a 1 year old can. In between songs I asked the daughter to come in the family room and join us and she said she was playing...okay I told her to have fun!!!!! Awhile later I saw something in her hand that looked like some candy....What? I asked her what it was and she was so excited she got candy for Christmas. You got candy for Christmas and from whom? So as I was walking into the Living Room/ Playroom I saw it... CHRISTMAS gifts unwrapped and opened. Okay, this was funny. Here I am trying to keep a straight face trying to explain why this was wrong but come on, it's not like other children have not done this before. I'm sure I've done this before. I'm surprised she lasted this long with presents under the tree for days and I thought it would be the boy first to get into the gifts. Don't count out the boy he is coming next. So after her telling me she only opened the gifts that had her name on them and she was right by the way, all the gifts she opened had her name on it. Neither I have a 3 year old genus or she was just lucky...hum... have to think which one to believe!!!!! I had to pull out the Mommy card and say it was wrong for opening gifts before Christmas.... it's hard being the mean Mommy at times....yikes and especially before Christmas too. The hubby took her to her room to think about what she did and when they came back she said she was sorry and asked if she could have the candy....lol. That was too funny! So it was calm again and then the boy had to let us know the Train going around our tree was not running. That's fine and told him we stopped running the train when no one was in the room so back to singing some more. Then we heard the boy making his little boy grunts because that's what he does ...grunt. He doesn't talk yet so the hubby went in to see what the problem was and then he SAW the tree.....I don't know what the boy did but our little fake tree was laying on it's side on the floor. Not only was it on it's side but the base to our tree got broken so now it's this pitiful looking lopsided tree. Some of the ornaments got broken but that's okay. Once the boy realized he was in the wrong with a candy cane in his tiny fist which to my the conclusion was the reason the tree was all in disarray preceded to have the facet of tears come strolling down his tiny face. He was so devastated like it was the end of the world as he knew it and all he wanted was a candy cane. Poor little boy!!! So calming this child down was like pulling your hair out so we had to let him cry it out. So now what?... WE can't go anywhere to get a new tree. My guess is I think it's going to be a Charlie Brown Christmas :) It could have been a lot worse!!! Chocolate, presents and then the tree... Is it the Christmas curse? What can go wrong or malfunction next? I guess I will have to wait see!! Take care, Peace!!!!