It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
No, seriously. Yesterday it snowed on and off all day, and every place I go has at least one Christmas tree.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this yet, but I am way into Christmas this year. Last year was kind of half-hearted: our Christmas tree didn’t get put up until about a week before Christmas, our Christmas cards never got sent out, and once we finally made it to Florida for the holidays with my family, things went kind of haywire with my Papa in the hospital. This year, on the other hand, I began listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving. So I guess you could say I am feeling double Christmas cheer this year, and I have some serious plans.
My hope is that by this weekend, I will be able to make enough room in our apartment for the Christmas tree, and then actually get it out of storage and put everything up - and, bake Christmas cookies of course. And by Christmas cookies, I mean this awesome-looking recipe for Samoas that I found today.
I’m a little skeptical on the “room for a Christmas tree” portion of that plan. Our apartment used to be charming and organized and orderly and small yet wonderful. Lately there is just not. enough. ROOM!!! And it is driving me crazy.
We have a fake Christmas tree, which is sort of awesome and not awesome at the same time. Growing up, my family always had a live Christmas tree, which we always bought on the first Friday evening of December, then decorated the next day after we’d been to my hometown’s Christmas on the Square festival and Christmas parade and had some chili.
The awesome part about live Christmas trees, of course, is that they smell awesome and are super beautiful. The downsides include having to vacuum your living room twenty-eight times a day.
Our current model of fake Christmas tree is just this side of Charlie Brown Christmas and smells like our storage area. To recify the latter issue, we invested in Misteltoe, Balsam & Cedar, and Sparkling Pine candles from Yankee, which I would highly recommend. The former is best handled by as many Christmas lights and ornaments as you can fit on the tree.
And, if we are lucky, by about 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a Christmas tree up in our living room, homemade Samoas in the oven, and chili simmering on the stove shortly thereafter.
How about you guys? Any fun Christmas traditions?
Dialogue
Jared
on a Tuesday
at 8:11 pm
We decorate the Christmas tree and then sing carols. My family is not particularily gifted musically. For the finale we always sing the Twelve Days of Christmas in parts. Everyone has to act out whatever part they are (I usually get five golden rings). Crazy but true in my family we actually have to double up on some of the days because there are not enough to go around…
jillie
on a Monday
at 11:15 am
let me just say
i love you Shannon
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