Funny thing is the star is too heavy so it is sitting on the mantel and there is a paper angel on the top now!
Aaron is showing us his "Zumba" moves from PE class. I laughed until I cried.
Pre lit trees are nice, this one is 2 years old and all the lights still work. The tree has all the kids ornaments on it and all of my meaningful ones. They get tired of my stories behind each one. One day they will appreciate it!
They first few years we were married we did have a real tree. Our first one looked like Charlie Browns Tree, after Joe had a fit at the cost of a tree. "Its dead, why do I have to pay $15 for a dead tree." Granted that was cheap, but it started our first Christmas together on a sour note.
The next year we went to a big box store and bought a real tree from the parking lot the week before Christmas. Meaning, I got a bigger tree at a cheaper price. We got the tree home and the trunk was crooked. We didn't know you had to cut the trunk down to size sometimes. He calls his friend Curt and gets a saw of some sort and after 4 trips in and out of the house with the tree, its up. Joe vows to never get a real tree again- Merry Christmas. We also had a big dog and a small house. The dogs tail knocked it over a few times, broke ornaments etc.
Needless to say we had no tree for the next 2 years until my parents bought a new one. Now the one they passed down to us was bought in 1982. So it was quality! I think they felt bad, since Amy had no tree for her first Christmas. I am pretty sure she won't need counseling for it.
After the ornaments had been in storage for a few years, we pull them out and they are all moldy! I am devastated, some were irreplaceable. I cry and cry and then realize they are things and we will make new memories.
Christmas's trees have been pretty uneventful since then. Oh yeah, except for the year Aaron(2) pulled the tree down and cut himself on a broken ornament. We still have a bloody precious moment ornament on the tree as a reminder(I cleaned it off as best I could).
The last few years of our last tree it was tied with dental floss to a nail in the wall, so no one could knock it down.
This year will be different. Only time will tell.
2 comments:
Our first tree, was tied up with fishing wire so i wouldn't fall forward.....
Why am I not surprised that Joe called Curt to help him "rescue" your Christmas tree?
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