One of my favorite parts of Christmas is the Christmas tree. I miss the days of being able to go out with my family and select the most perfect tree, saw it down, strap it to the roof of the car and drive our beloved tree home. Living in New Mexico doesn't really make that possible and a fresh cut tree is expensive, so we now have the pre-lit fake tree and I plug in a tree sent fragrance and it's almost like the real thing. What I love most about the tree, other than just the beauty of it with the lights on, its that it is a family history as well. I don't have a matchy match tree, instead every year we get a couple of new ornaments and the kids make some and that is what we put on the tree. The kids love unwrapping the ornaments that are specifically theirs and look at the dates on them and remember how old they were when they got them and what they got for Christmas that year. I also have to get an ornament from every place we visit, so when we are putting those on the tree we remember the trips we had. This year I didn't get to have that experience because I turned the decorating over to the kids. They got to decorate 2 trees because I had an extra slim tree from when we were selling our house so we put that upstairs in the loft. They did a great job and they kept reminding each other to be careful of their special ornaments. I also overheard their comments about the ornaments that were special to them and it brought back so many memories of my childhood and my special ornaments. I did get to enjoy each ornament when I took them down off the tree yesterday and every time I do I sing to myself "I cry the day that I take the tree down, I want the season to last all year round, and I am dreaming of Christmases when, we'll be together again. It's strange how things are changed when touched by love, we treasure things we never thought much of....." As I was taking the ornaments down I thought about how this beloved tree was really a living (ok, well it's fake, but you know what I mean) journal and family history of many Christmas memories.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Oh Christmas Tree......
One of my favorite parts of Christmas is the Christmas tree. I miss the days of being able to go out with my family and select the most perfect tree, saw it down, strap it to the roof of the car and drive our beloved tree home. Living in New Mexico doesn't really make that possible and a fresh cut tree is expensive, so we now have the pre-lit fake tree and I plug in a tree sent fragrance and it's almost like the real thing. What I love most about the tree, other than just the beauty of it with the lights on, its that it is a family history as well. I don't have a matchy match tree, instead every year we get a couple of new ornaments and the kids make some and that is what we put on the tree. The kids love unwrapping the ornaments that are specifically theirs and look at the dates on them and remember how old they were when they got them and what they got for Christmas that year. I also have to get an ornament from every place we visit, so when we are putting those on the tree we remember the trips we had. This year I didn't get to have that experience because I turned the decorating over to the kids. They got to decorate 2 trees because I had an extra slim tree from when we were selling our house so we put that upstairs in the loft. They did a great job and they kept reminding each other to be careful of their special ornaments. I also overheard their comments about the ornaments that were special to them and it brought back so many memories of my childhood and my special ornaments. I did get to enjoy each ornament when I took them down off the tree yesterday and every time I do I sing to myself "I cry the day that I take the tree down, I want the season to last all year round, and I am dreaming of Christmases when, we'll be together again. It's strange how things are changed when touched by love, we treasure things we never thought much of....." As I was taking the ornaments down I thought about how this beloved tree was really a living (ok, well it's fake, but you know what I mean) journal and family history of many Christmas memories.
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I totally know what you mean about the Christmas tree. I was planning to take ours down today, but instead I just sat there and stared at it, feeling like this season just didn't quite last long enough. Maybe tomorrow I'll get up the actual nerve to disassemble.
So I am wondering about your comment that you turned the decorating over to the children this year. That left we wondering how and why you decided to do that? If I had done that I would have saved myself a ton of stress....I think. They did a beautiful job. The tree is beautiful!
The kids always get so antsy about decorating the tree and I decided that it was hopeless to contain their enthusiasm until I was ready so I just let them go for it while I did the other decorating and it turned out fabulous. They were also really great about helping me get all the lights taken down off the house after Christmas. It is so nice to not have to kill yourself with all the work of putting christmas together by turning some of it over to the kids and then walking away from it (no micro managing).
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