"Just When I Thought You Couldn't Possibly Be Any Dumber...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 11:49PM ...you go and do something like this . . . and TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!"
I think I should be scared that quotes from Dumb and Dumber are often quite applicable to our life (mine in particular).
I had this idea...since we were going to be gone around Christmas Day, it seemed wiser to get a smallish fake tree, set it on a tabletop, make it pretty, and call it done. We haven't ever had an artificial tree, and the year that we didn't do a real tree, we made one out of paper and stuck it on our wall. Talk about easy clean-up.
A week or so went by, and I figured that the fake-tree thing wasn't going to happen; then the other day Mike called from the office and said I should take the kids, or we could all go later in the day, and look for a pre-lit tree to enjoy until we leave for Florida. I was surprised, since we are leaving a bit before Christmas and the kids and I will be gone for a couple of weeks (Mike has to preach, so he will be around here). We packed ourselves into the van and headed to Home Depot. Mike had seen a good deal on a decent tree online, and it said they sold them in the store.
Of course, they had about twenty 4 foot trees, about twenty 6 and 7 foot trees, and zero 5 foot trees. Guess which size we were after? Well, of course...the 5 foot tree, which apparently everyone in Dallas was interested in, as well.
Undeterred, Mike said we ought to go out and look at the trees outside. As in, the live trees. We checked out the small ones (3 foot trees) (Why am I saying "foot"...should it be "feet"? All this talk about feet and trees is making me feel crazy, like it's just wrong.), and they were even more like Charlie Brown's tree than Charlie Brown's tree. Mike walked all through the taller trees, and held one up (it had been leaning with a ton of other trees along a fence) and said,"What about this one?"
Waht? I mean, What? I was so surprised that I still can't even spell. So, while we went out to get an artificial pre-lit tree, we ended up with
something made of a lot less plastic and a lot more wood. And pine needles.
This has excited the kids to no end, and while I feel mildly (read: extremely) stressed out about how little I've packed even though we're moving in ABOUT A MONTH, I know it will be fun to decorate the tree and enjoy it for the next few days.
I think.
No, no. I know it. I just know it! Also, I know I get to put the lights on.
Reader Comments (4)
Enjoy your tree while you can. We are ging to be gone to Florida for about 10 days over Christmas break, but I went ahead and put up all our decorations so I could enjoy them before we leave. But, I am taking my 4 foot tree to Disney World with us so I can wake up to a Christmas tree!
Of all the things about Christmas that I could happily skip, I must say that the tree is not one of them. Glad you got one - I don't think it's dumb at all!
Yay! Be sure to post a post-decoration pic. Too many posts? Couldn't think of a synonym for the first one.
I like your tree skirt! I've always wanted a real tree. I grew up with a sliver aluminum one which was pretty sharp and hip for it's day, but so not what every other family I knew had.