Compromise.....the secret of a happy marriage!
Every year Andy and I have a on going battle about the Christmas Tree. I grew up going to a tree farm all bundled up with the whole family walking around deciding which tree would be the best. Usually it was a white pine with long soft needles and flimsy limbs that couldn't hold heavy ornaments. My mom would maticulously find the perfect side of the tree to face outwards and even go so far as to tie limbs with fishing line up if there was a hole in the tree. I remember getting very impatient with her, "why it had to be so perfect"! Now I am the same way!!! I just love the smell and look of a real tree and I get so excited about having the "perfect tree". Andy on the other hand could care less if we even had a tree. He perfers a branch, which as he tells me, he and his father would drive around to find a dead branch lying along the road then bring it home to stick in a bucket and decorate. Which I must admit, we did this a few years and ago and it was quite fun driving around the city of Atlanta going through peoples yard trash to get the branch. We ended up with about a 10 ft (dead tree) branch that stuck out the back of our Element and brought it home for its second life. To make a long story shorter..... We made an agreement a couple of years ago that we would do both, but alternate every year. So this year I wanted Reid's first Christmas to be a real tree, so Andy and I compromised. He agreed to get a real tree as long as it was no taller than him. (Which is not that tall). I have a nack for picking out the tallest tree not realizing that its over 10 ft!! So we drove about an hour last weekend to a tree farm, Andy stayed in the car with Reid while I walked around the farm in the cold snow picking out the tree. Then I came back told him where it was and he cut and drug it in.
So, as you will see it is not the prettiest tree and definetly not the tallest, but it is a real tree and I am so thankful for it!!!! It smells so good! I guess next year we will have to do the branch.
I hope you all are enjoying your Holiday traditions as well!
So, as you will see it is not the prettiest tree and definetly not the tallest, but it is a real tree and I am so thankful for it!!!! It smells so good! I guess next year we will have to do the branch.
I hope you all are enjoying your Holiday traditions as well!
posted by Andrew Kari at
12/09/2008 09:25:00 AM
4 Comments:
You are so funny and you are exactly right about your mom. She has tried twice this year to get me to go with her to pick out a tree and I am just not interested. Plus I know how long it would take. She picked out two this year (Reid Tree). So I am with Andy on this one. I have an artifical tree bought 5 years ago from K-mart at 75% off after Christmas. It spins and it is prelit. Doesn't get any better than that!
Love it!
I wish we could do s real tree. I'd prefer a real one that we could re-plant. But... we are too far away and don;t plan on changing the "traveling for Christmas" plans anytime soon. Looks like I have to settle for a fake pre-lit
(which, I am confessing, really is not that bad. It looks real, I don't worry about lights, and I can put it up and take it down all by myself.)
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Andrew and his dad would prowl the streets of Sylvania looking for the perfect branch. The dad looked for the branch while Andrew kept an eye out for the police. We were unsure if taking someone's branch was stealing or recycling???
When Andrew was young and we lived in Connecticut, his playmates saw the branch and told their parents that Andrew's family was too poor to afford a tree with needles! So much for cross cultural Christmas traditions!
Grandma & Grandpa Wingerter
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