Get your mind out of the gutter - I'm talking Christmas trees here people.
Growing up, our tree was always real. I remember a few times going out as a family and finding the perfect tree. As I got older and too cool to hang out with my family, I'm guessing my dad would go and cut it down as there weren't tree lots that I can remember. Especially in northern Minnesota.
Now that I have my own family, we have the debate every year. Mike prefers fake while I prefer real. Mike's won out for the past 7 years. I really haven't put up much of a fight though. This year I'm putting my foot down. We are getting a real tree.
Well, we put up our fake tree today. And we're getting a real one tomorrow. I get the real tree upstairs to decorate as Martha Stewarty as I possibly can. The tree downstairs is decorated ala Colton. He picked out the light combo - white lights, then colored than white than colored. I let go of my control issues and let him put the decorations wherever he wanted and didn't move one when he wasn't looking. The only thing I did was put the breakable glass decorations up at the top.
What kind of tree to you have?
2 comments:
growing up it was always real for us too...but we never got it until like dec. 15th, very late. Then we'd keep it up until like jan. 10th. It was a mess!!
Cory's allergic, so we have a fake one now. But I do prefer multi-colored lights, not just white ones!!
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We have a fake one! I like to put it up right after Thanksgiving and keep it up until right after Christmas. I tend to alter from year to year from Clear white lights to colored lights! This year it is Colored lights. Last year we did get a SMALL real tree for the girls to decorate.
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