Bright and early Friday morning I decided to tackle the Christmas tree part of my Holiday decor.
For years I've used a fake tree, loving the convenience and cost effectiveness. Sadly, two years ago our poor plastic tree stand broke and I haven't used the tree since. A few weeks back and I was happy to discover a replacement tree stand at Walmart. Yipeeee!
Armed with my newly purchased tree stand, I searched high and low into all my homes nooks and crannies only to discover I was missing a tree!
What!
Where in the heck did I stash it!
Then it hit me . . .
Last spring during one of my crazed get-all-this-junk-out-of-my-house moments, I carried that poor tree to the curb for the nice dump truck to pick up!
Ummm, O.K, time for plan "B".
The girls and I jumped into the trusty mini-van and headed out to find a place to buy a real tree!
An hour later, we had one picked out and the nice Tree Farm Guys had it all ready to load up for me.
Problem was, they only took cash or check.
I had neither with me!
Back to the mini-van to search for an ATM.
Forty-five minutes later the girls and I arrive home with the tree.
Suddenly,
my 7 foot tree seems more like 25 feet as I try to wrestle it off the roof of the mini-van and up a flight of stairs into the living room.
I thought that would be the hard part - - but Oh No, next came attaching the tree stand.
Trying to balance a now seemingly 50 foot frozen tree in a stand with one hand, while desperately trying to screw the little things into the tree stump with the other hand is not a task for the faint hearted.
A good half hour later with frozen, sap covered hands the tree was up - - slightly leaning but still standing.
LUNCH TIME!
Back to the mini-van. This time in search of some food. Along the way we took bets on whether the tree would still be standing when we arrived back home!
It was, I lost that bet but I did a little happy dance anyway.
Next up, ornaments and lights! Yippee, the fun part.
After digging all the boxes out and sorting through everything I discovered I didn't have any working tree lights!
C O M E O N!!!!!!!!
It's now 8:30 at night and were headed to the store for tree lights.
By 10:30 the tree decorated and I was exhausted!
What a Fiasco!
Can you see why I like fake trees!
Want to see my poor tree? Here she is.
The girls have free reign on the tree decorating. I let them go crazy. Plus we have little ones at our house during the week who are fascinated with the ornaments. That is why every things hanging way up high!
For tree lights I pick up some large scaled LED lights in cool white. I have to say I'm not liking them AT ALL. Maybe I would like them better if I had picked up the warm white color or if I had chosen the smaller size.
The bulbs themselves are very pretty, they look like cut crystal.
I was hoping I would like them. Oh well, it was worth a shot.
Sorry this was such a long post. I sure hope I didn't bore you to tears. But I have to say I feel much better now that I've talked about that darn tree. Hope you understand...
Robin
