Nov. 29, 2006

Christmas Tree Time

I love Christmas time...  I love the lights, decorations, Christmas Eve services at church, cool weather, and  especially the Christmas tree. Now don't get me wrong, the absolute best thing about Christmas is that God sent His Son to earth to save us, but after celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, my favorite thing about Christmas is picking out and decorating the Christmas tree.  The ornaments bring back memories of times gone by, and each year another one of our children is old enough to remember the year before. You see, when I was a child we had to have an artificial tree. My brother had asthma and the real tree bothered him.  So we had a fake tree. Every few years my dad would cave to the begging of my sister and myself and take us to the Christmas tree lot and spend a good part of an evening picking out a real tree. When I got married I decided that I would always have a real tree, and for the most part we have. A few years ago we started a new tradition, not only would our tree be real but we could cut it down ourselves. The first year we did this it was like a fairy tale. The kids rode in the back of the truck up the mountain on the way to the field of trees.  Then they happily ran all through this forest finding the perfect tree, which dad cut down, loaded up, and took home for the decorating. Last year did not go as well, to sum it up, it involved lots of mud, a four-wheel drive, a tractor with some towing chains, cow poop, and flashlights. Even though we have  left the country, I was not willing to give up our new tradition, so I searched the internet for a Christmas tree farm in our area. I came across a pretty cool web site that lists places all over the country where you can cut your own tree as well as pick your own produce. They even list places where you can take a sleigh ride. Pretty neat! So Saturday we are off in search of the perfect Christmas tree. The kids are excited, I'm excited, and dad is bracing his back for heaving the tree on top of our Suburban. Let the fun begin!

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Nov. 30, 2006 - Christmas Tree

Posted by FruitfulFamily

I always wanted a REAL TREE, so when my husband I married we got real trees. Normally we go to a tree farm and cut it down or they cut it down. Last year we decided to go to a lot and pick a real tree. We did, gave the tree a fresh cut and went home. Unfortunately the $60 tree had a crooked stump and couldn't stand up in the holder without falling. We had to use this ugly rope and tie it to the window and put mulch in the stand for it to stand up. By 5 days before Christmas our otherwise beautiful tree looked like Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree. We had to take the decorations off and throw the tree away and were forced to put up our Veggie Tale's Nativity Set. Oh did I mention it took 2 hours to get all the visable needles out of the carpet and many more pierced our feet as the days went on. Well, we haven't decided between REAL and FAKE for this year. So I can understand the cow poop, tow truck episode!!!

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