O Christmas Tree

We decided not to have a Christmas tree this year. Sort of. I'd planned to get one of those little four-foot trees and put it up on a table. But they sold out before I could get myself to the store that had the ones I wanted. I didn't want one of those three-footers in the little pot, I really had my eye on the four-footer.

So, when I was unable to get it by mid-December (and we finally got around to unpacking our decorations), we decided to forgo a tree. After all, we had the nativity scene, which really is the whole point anyway. Apparently this was not a wise decision. Everyone who has been to our house recently has commented on our lack of a tree. I could come up with any number of very viable reasons why we have no tree. But the honest one is, with everything else going on, we just didn't feel like doing it this year.

We won't be able to make such a decision in the years to come, as a certain young man will get indocternated into the Christmas Holiday spirit and be might disappointed if we fail to produce a tree. I did decide to order a cute one-foot tree one from Crate and Barrel, but it was supposed to arrive 2 days ago, and still isn't here.

With all this talk of a tree, I am starting to feel a little guilty that Den's parents came all the way from Wisconsin and there is no green Christmas tree for them. Oh well, it's Eddie they want to see. We did take Eddie to see Santa...