I had to laugh at our traditional tree decorating experience again this evening. Since Craig and I have been married we've skipped over purchasing a tree and gone out to cut one down. The tradition began when we had been married just a few years - I was still at Washburn Univ. and interning 40-60 hours a week on top of my full school schedule - Craig had long hours and we were driving an hour away several times a week to check on our cattle and we just seemed to let the Christmas season skip by us...I still remember telling mom just a few days before Christmas that year that we didn't have a tree - so mom MADE us drive down there that afternoon and we brought home our 2 foot tall Charlie Brown Christmas Tree from her pasture. I think it was able to hold only 4 ornaments and a 3 foot strand of lights circled twice around!
There set forth our own tradition of hiking out into the pasture and finding the perfect Charlie Brown Christmas Tree - either 1/2 of the tree is missing branches or what seems like a 4-5 foot tree outside ends up being 8 foot tall and 8 foot wide once placed in the living room, and we have to rearrange all the furniture again! This year was no different, in fact - it would be even more special as we were unable to enjoy the lights and sounds of the holiday season last year with our 2 week crippling ice storm for the 2007 season! This year's humor could be yet another fun memory of the Christmas holiday.
We had 2 ornaments left to put on and as I stand in the doorway, the boys go running by the tree and one of them caught ahold of it and the tree came slamming down in the dining room - on the brick tiles. The look on their faces was priceless - I almost burst into tears with the shock but had to just smile - as I picked up the 7-8 broken ornaments off the floor and both boys were saying over and over again how sorry they were, I remembered these were just material things and looking at their sweet little faces was really all I needed at Christmas. Our tree, while perfect in our eyes, may be a grin to another - as it is now being tied up to the upper stair rail by a Men's neck tie and the upper 1/2 of the lights do not work from the hard floor jolt and we're missing a few of the more memorable ornaments - others are being glued together. As Therron hung the last ornament up that had broken - it was a Boyds Bear on a Wagon, which was now missing all of its wheels, he said "Its okay mommy, the bear is just riding a sled now, not a wagon - you can't ride wagons at Christmas time anyway!" And he is right...
There set forth our own tradition of hiking out into the pasture and finding the perfect Charlie Brown Christmas Tree - either 1/2 of the tree is missing branches or what seems like a 4-5 foot tree outside ends up being 8 foot tall and 8 foot wide once placed in the living room, and we have to rearrange all the furniture again! This year was no different, in fact - it would be even more special as we were unable to enjoy the lights and sounds of the holiday season last year with our 2 week crippling ice storm for the 2007 season! This year's humor could be yet another fun memory of the Christmas holiday.
We had 2 ornaments left to put on and as I stand in the doorway, the boys go running by the tree and one of them caught ahold of it and the tree came slamming down in the dining room - on the brick tiles. The look on their faces was priceless - I almost burst into tears with the shock but had to just smile - as I picked up the 7-8 broken ornaments off the floor and both boys were saying over and over again how sorry they were, I remembered these were just material things and looking at their sweet little faces was really all I needed at Christmas. Our tree, while perfect in our eyes, may be a grin to another - as it is now being tied up to the upper stair rail by a Men's neck tie and the upper 1/2 of the lights do not work from the hard floor jolt and we're missing a few of the more memorable ornaments - others are being glued together. As Therron hung the last ornament up that had broken - it was a Boyds Bear on a Wagon, which was now missing all of its wheels, he said "Its okay mommy, the bear is just riding a sled now, not a wagon - you can't ride wagons at Christmas time anyway!" And he is right... 
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