Christmas Decorating at Our House
Christmas is my favorite time of year to decorate. It usually involves tons of fresh greenery and cutting down a tree from our local Christmas tree farm and breaking out all the old family ornaments from over the years. I don’t care much about Christmas gifts, because for me it has always been about the […]
Christmas is my favorite time of year to decorate. It usually involves tons of fresh greenery and cutting down a tree from our local Christmas tree farm and breaking out all the old family ornaments from over the years. I don’t care much about Christmas gifts, because for me it has always been about the tree and ornaments.
I will never forget Julia’s first Christmas and seeing her genuine confusion about why anyone would want to bring a live tree into their home. Julia is Jewish and didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas, but she’s kindly learned to accept my intense love of all things Christmas tree-related. After four years of buying fresh trees and always (always!) forgetting to drag them out before the needles all fall off, this year I decided to try something different.
Thanks to our friends at Terrain, this year I embraced something I thought I never would: a fake Christmas tree. I’ve always dreamed about a silver retro tinsel tree (but nixed the idea because our cat Turk would definitely try to eat those strands), but I always thought a faux tree would be too cheesy or sad. But I’m pretty sure our new faux Norway ...
Christmas is my favorite time of year to decorate. It usually involves tons of fresh greenery and cutting down a tree from our local Christmas tree farm and breaking out all the old family ornaments from over the years. I don’t care much about Christmas gifts, because for me it has always been about the tree and ornaments.
I will never forget Julia’s first Christmas and seeing her genuine confusion about why anyone would want to bring a live tree into their home. Julia is Jewish and didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas, but she’s kindly learned to accept my intense love of all things Christmas tree-related. After four years of buying fresh trees and always (always!) forgetting to drag them out before the needles all fall off, this year I decided to try something different.
Thanks to our friends at Terrain, this year I embraced something I thought I never would: a fake Christmas tree. I’ve always dreamed about a silver retro tinsel tree (but nixed the idea because our cat Turk would definitely try to eat those strands), but I always thought a faux tree would be too cheesy or sad. But I’m pretty sure our new faux Norway ...
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