Don't Bother Laura, She's Busy With Christmas 
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Spanks, girl!  Come on, don't you watch Oprah?
I think they actually have real grass under that thing -
like sod - which is weird.

The Bush's at their Children's Holiday Reception & Performance. Look at this kid's face!  I love it!  He's all:  "Are you for real?"

Speaking of the White House:  while craziness is going on worldwide, First Lady Laura Bush is back from her travels and has finished holding haughty receptions to commission ornament painters for the ornaments on the White House Christmas tree.  (I love how she oh-so-casually adjusts the ornament with "Honor" printed on it for the photo op.) Ah, yes, she sat down with "Good Morning America" to discuss the removal of the chandelier from the Blue Room to fit the Christmas tree; she unveiled a gingerbread White House covered in white chocolate (made by personal chefs, of course), that even had tiny replicas of the Bush's dogs, "Barney and Miss Beazley, in Santa's sleigh on the roof."

Every year First Lady Bush picks a "theme" for the White House's Christmas.  (Yeah, well, get ready for a goodbye theme next year!)  This year, she chose "Holiday in the National Parks" as the theme.

They used golden leaves, handmade ornaments, and art that showed America's parks.  Guess how long they've been working on this?  Since March.

"Nancy and I start to work on the Christmas decorations about March.  It takes us that long," Laura said.  "We start to think about what the theme will be and we start to develop what the decorations will be because Nancy, the florist, the volunteers and the White House staffing - including the plumbers, electricians and carpenters - build a lot of the decorations every year."

What a life.

The larger ornaments on the tree represented all of the national parks in the U.S.  President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura then had another little photo op in the East Room of the White House, where some kids were invited to watch the Ford's Theater Society perform "A Christmas Carol."

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