O Christmas Tree

We broke all of the traditions today!! It definitely was not the same putting the tree up without you! You are always so good about going out and making sure you get a real tree (even if it ends up being the "Charlie Brown" Chrismas tree every year from our local Steins or Home Depot!). This year we broke in the "pretend" tree. The children were not too sure about this idea, a tree from a box? How could we!! Anyways, after successfully putting it together and pulling down the branches to make it look like it was a healthy, perfect Christmas tree, Mom plugged in the one simple plug and Voila! Christmas tree in a couple of minutes!! This was Mom's idea of a great new tradition to be started in the home, I was smiling just thinking of the time that would be saved because of this modern convenience. Well, the children were not so sure..., they started commenting on how it didn't really smell like "Christmas" and how there are no needles on the floor. Starting to feel bad I sprayed a little holiday Febreeze (the limited edition that is supposed to smell like winter pines), thinking that would ease their discontent. Of course, their reaction was "P.U., what is that stinky smell?"

I then suggested making holiday ornaments out of cinnamon, allspice, cloves and anything else I could find that smelled like "Christmas". Off to the kitchen we went and well, by the time we were done the kitchen was one enormous mess! Never mind the fact that all day I was taking great satisfaction in the fact that I had cleaned it from top to bottom this morning. Oh yeah, and never mind that "time" I was supposed to save. We ended up having a great time together and we have some new stinky ornaments on the tree to show for it!



I was playing around with texture on this Chrismas photo