My very best Christmas tree ever

Where is our Christmas tree? Oh yeah… I have been so busy getting “ready” for the holiday season that I didn’t even notice we don’t have a Christmas tree of our own.  Last year we decided to go to the Christmas tree farm with the entire family and spend hours looking for the perfect tree on Thanksgiving day.  However, when that tree was dried out and dead 20 days before Christmas  due to a variety of factors, we knew this year wasn’t going to include a trip to the tree farm. Our experience was going to be far different… I just didn’t know how drastically different until today!

So… I said to my little one, “where are we going to get a Christmas tree?” and he so wisely answered – “TO THE THRIFT STORE!”  Well this is the last place I was thinking about visiting for a Christmas tree but off to the thrift stores we went.  The variety of trees awaiting resale was unbelievable and the “oohhhs and ahhhs” by my little one for their stunning beauty (undecorated) was quite frankly both hilarious and the sweetest thing I had ever seen.  He saw the beauty someone else apparently no longer saw in these artificial trees.  In the end, we left with a 6 foot artificial tree covered ever so delicately with rust on the wire ends and a slight odor of the thrift store for a mere $10.00.

Mommy’s first thoughts – FEBREZE and lots of DECORATIONS.  Rivers’ first thoughts – LIGHTS, LIGHTS and more LIGHTS.  In the end, we now have the most perfect tree in the world.  It is filled with so much more than just ornaments, garland, lights and tinsel.  The experience we had in “rescuing” it from the thrift shop and the super glue it took to make sure the pieces stay in place for at least this Christmas make it somewhat like care we would offer our newest family member.  Rivers has invited everyone over and tries his best to describe the best Christmas tree ever.  So… where is our Christmas tree? In our dining room (his choice), complete with a furry tree skirt for our three cats to rest and admire the beauty.

For the rest of the night we decided to send Christmas cheer to our loved ones through an email card where they could decorate their own tree and receive greetings from us!  We also searched long and hard for ornaments we can make ourselves.  We have decided to make a Christmas ornament for each one of his classmates (19 total) and his 4 teachers.  We will let you in on what we make very soon.