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Oh Christmas Tree...
December 5, 2005
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches...
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Amanda on Dec. 5, 2005, 9:04 p.m.
I have never seen a Christmas tree like yours before. When you have kids anything will go. This year our tree's ornimants have actually stayed where they where placed. This is a first in since having kids.
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renee on Dec. 5, 2005, 9:09 p.m.
Just so you all know this is not our "final product" tree. Tonight once the lights are on it we'll decorate it with the ornaments. I just thought it was kind of funny. I am learning to be more loose about my Christmas expectations but snakes are really too much!!
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Karen on Dec. 6, 2005, 3:57 a.m.
I've wound lights around the trunk of my large yucca tree and around the pot - that's our tree for this year. But if I had your little ones decorating a real tree for us, I'd even allow the snakes - to go with the pigs and cows that they put on the branches last year!
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barbara on Dec. 9, 2005, 7:36 a.m.
This year we bought a couple of sets of blue LED lights and decorated the tree in the hallway (not a Christmas tree, though) and a couple of sets of yellow LED lights and decorated the shrub in the livingroom. I can't believe how cheap they are to burn! You can burn 1 set of (50 lights) 6 hours a day for 30 days and it only costs 45 cents. I think that must be cheaper than burning boring night lights! I think we will leave the lights on these trees all year and use them for night lights and party festivities. They look so cute. And the lighting is so soft.
I remember those days when we had little ones. The tree always looked a little 'strange' after a few days when little fingers rearranged the decor. On top of that we had a cat that loved playing with the ornaments too! We would wake up in the morning with ornaments that had been batted around the floor a few times!
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renee on Dec. 9, 2005, 6:50 p.m.
Mom, I laughed at your description of the 'strange' Christmas tree that little fingers have rearranged. It's like you are describing the tree at our house, complete with the cat batting the ornaments off the bottom. So far only one glass ball ornament has been broken this year and that was the kids, not the cat. But I like our strangely decorated tree. I confess the night after we decorated it I spent time "fixing the tree" - moving ornaments to more visually appealing spaces. But thankfully one day later I had happily given up my quest for a perfect tree, afterall I'm too busy listening to Johnny Cash to care!
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becky on Dec. 5, 2005, 8:25 p.m.
It's true when you have a child your tree does take on a new look! I must admit though...I have never seen a snake in a Christmas tree before...very creative!
Our tree changed a bit now that Ja-ira is 'BUSY', in that we only have lights and a beaded thing on the bottom half, all the ornaments are near the top. Even with that it's a battle at times.