Saturday, November 29, 2008

"Oh Christmas Tree....."

Ever since I can remember, one of my favorite times of year was when we got to decorate the Christmas tree. When I was a little girl, I used to beg my mom to let me set up my own "little" tree on the table in the living room...a tree altogether different than the family tree. Since then, I have decorated real trees, fake trees, tall trees and short trees. I have decorated them by myself, surrounded by friends and with my family. I have gone through phases where I adorned the boughs with ornaments all of the same color and other times that I chose to decorate with all of the ornaments that I have collected throughout the years-all of the ones that totally don't match!

White lights, colored lights, red ribbons, candy canes, flocked with snow, silvery tinsel, tons of ornaments...those that were given to me as a baby, those that I made myself, those given to me as an adult. To me, it just isn't Christmas until the tree is lit!!!

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