All tied up... our Christmas tree that is.
It's kind of a catch up week again. But, I am trying not to do a huge blog all in one day so I will do some over a few days instead.
Every first Family Home Evening in December we go out to get our tree. We have gone to Home Depot every year, and this year we had thoughts of going to cut our own tree down, but as soon as we saw how cold it was, those thoughts were quickly washed away. So, we all headed down to Home Depot on the coldest night of the year so far. Well, because of the great weather, we were just about the only ones there! It made it great for picking out a great tree. After about forty five minutes of looking and turning down (oh, and making a potty trip in the middle), we finally decided on the fattest tree that we could find. We saw our friends from Columbia 2nd ward, the Laws, and they had come and gone before us. Oh well, we felt good about our fat little tree.
A couple nights later we decorated our tree and it looks just like a family's tree with four little kids who live there. We enjoy all the ornaments in one spot in the front. It really gives it character. Well, I guess the tree didn't enjoy it too much though because at 2:30 in the morning we hear a huge crash. Yes, the tree had fallen. I guess it was a little top heavy. Brian decided to tie it up. Yes, our tree is now tied to our wall. At least it won't fall again right?
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I remember my dad tying up the tree several years! I don't remember it ever falling, though. Maybe he just liked tying things up.
Your tree looks great!
Our tree has all the breakable ornaments at the very top & then our girls do all the decorating below. I loved your post because you're right- it's so much funner for them to get to do it, rather than worrying about having a perfect tree.
Oh, and Congrats on being Compassionate service leader. I don't envy you one bit. I served in that calling for about a year here & WoW!- You have your hands full.