And we are going to make a record in the taking down of the tree too, right? 
Unless a miracle happens, I don’t think I am going to make it over before Christmas

What, you don’t think Easter eggs would make pretty decorations?

Your household must be fairly vibrating with activity. There are more last minute things to do than there is time.  We have a month, though. You’ll see him.

We didn’t get ours up and fully decorated till last Saturday, and I had to trim a whole bunch of branches off the trunk at the bottom, so there’s a whacking great hole down there.  And the top looked quite straight until I added an ornament, and it now tilts at a 45-degree angle.  We’re very Charlie-Brownish this year.

But hey! The new tree skirt I bought to replace the one I can’t find looks nice!

Linkmeister, you will appreciate this.  A few years ago my goddaughter from Lanikai was with us prior to Christmas and had the extreme pleasure (hers, not necessarily mine!!) of going with us to a snowy, cold, wintery lot to buy our Christmas tree.  She went back to Hawaii filled with stories of how, since I have a convertible and my husband has a totally useless sports car, we have to bring the tree home in the back seat (and we are talking 12’ feet of tree usually) with the top down.  She thought that was the coolest (coldest??) thing!! 

We had a great picture of last year’s adventure complete with snowflakes falling and snow covered trees and ground so used it for our Christmas card this year!!

Grins.  Cyn, my Hawai’i-residing sister and her kids (and the B-in-Law) used snow scenes from a trip to Vegas last winter on their Christmas cards this year.  I think we all want to be somewhere we’re not sometimes.

My nieces would so have enjoyed that trip to a tree lot.  Refrigerated containers just aren’t the same.

I noticed that there were reasonably decent looking Christmas trees at the grocery store today. For only $10. Amazing. I didn’t get one, though. My tree stand has gone hiding and there isn’t a new one to be found anywhere in this town.  I do have a tree skirt, though!!