A Year Without a Christmas Tree....

Okay, so it's not quite that sad, but it's true. Our much anticipated tradition of loading the car and heading to the forest (with permit in hand), to cut our beautiful tree did not happen this year. In years past, we try to take care of this ritual over the Thanksgiving break. This year Mark was less than a week out from his surgery and in no condition to chop down a tree....although he was seriously considering it. It seemed that the next few weekends after that were spent at swim meets, and before we knew it half the month had passed. We entertained the thought of going to cut a tree last week and then came to the realization that we would have a good week with our balsam friend before we would be loading up and heading to Utah for Christmas. So we made the decision to forgo the real deal this year and find solace in our little artificial Family Tree we have upstairs. We are missing the fresh fragrance of a real tree, but are content with our glowing little alternate for now. We look forward to next year when the scent of pine once again swarms through the house!!