This last weekend Christmas officially began in my household. On Sunday, we went out to a lovely brunch at Pancake Cafe, and then we ran to Target where we bought a Christmas Tree. For years we have had a tiny little Christmas tree that we put atop a little whicker table and put our presents below it, fake of course. While the tree served it’s purpose well, we decided that we had outgrown it and decided to get ourselves a new fake Christmas tree.
The reason we wanted to stick with fake was largely because of me. I am not a huge x-mas tree fan in the first place, and the idea of killing a tree for a month of holiday fun seems really wrong to me so I convinced my roommate to buy a fake one. Though I think she has similar feelings as me, just not as strong so it didn’t take a lot. We also bought some LED lights to go with it as well as some tinsle.
We chose one of the cheaper trees that we found that had no lights built in. It is kind of strange that these days most fake trees come with lighs built in. On some respect that is really nice, but we wanted to be able to have different lights every year and we also wanted LED which none of the trees had built in. So it worked, it only cost $60-70 which we figure we will be able to make up in two or three years from not having to buy a real one.
So we brought it home, set it up and decorated it with the tinsel and lights that we had bought. It set up surprisingly easy, I was expecting a little more work, but it was quick. All-in-all we had it set up in about 30-45 minutes.
It was a perfectly nice day for setting up as well, it started snowing midway into setting up the tree, I brok out some eggnog and my daughter sang Christmas Carols. On the way to her going back to her house, I turned on the Christmas radio station so we could listen to tunes the way home.
And like any good winter holiday, I am now sick. Merry Christmas.