O Christmas Tree…Or Not.

Soooo, does it make me a terrible mother that I considered not setting up our Christmas tree this year? I mean, it's not like I'm the scrooge or anything but we have ZERO room for a tree up in this joint. 

BUT...before you get out the pitchforks and carry me off to an angry mob, you should know that it's not like I considered going completely treeless; I was simply going to forego the big traditional tree and let the kids have a tabletop tree in their rooms that they could pick out and decorate to their heart's desire. *Phew, that whole paragraph was ONE sentence, am I the only one who picked up on that? I totally minored in Professional Writing so maybe it's a habit that I notice such things.*

But I kept struggling with the idea. I'm BIG on traditions. And having a Christmas tree is kind of a big deal to me, because it's a tradition my kids know. Although truth be told, if it were just me and Seth I probably wouldn't set one up in our current place because we are so tight on space, but we've got three kiddos to think about therefore it wasn't an easy decision for us to make.

December 2010

Finally, I just looked at Seth the other day, after thinking out loud about the whole Christmas tree decision, and asked, "We'd be bad parents, huh? We'd totally be bad parents if we don't set up our Christmas tree, huh?" He didn't answer verbally, he just kinda looked to the side, did a half-shrug and made a face that I can't describe. Essentially, his body language said, "Yeah, we'd be terrible parents if we didn't set up the tree due solely to space reasons."

So our tree will go up.

Yeah, you read that right; it will go up, meaning it hasn't gone up yet. It's 13 December and our Christmas tree isn't up. Tsk tsk. But this is the first year that has ever happened - because typically we put it up the day after Thanksgiving (yet another tradition). But this is a tradition no mo' (haha. *you know why I'm laughing if you watch The Office), because this is the first year the kids are split between two states (rather than the same city), which means things change. But that's life and we make the best of it. BUT, we do keep one tradition in all this chaos; we put the tree up as a family, that means all of us play a part in setting it up and making it lovely. 

When is D day you ask? Tomorrow. Should be fun and interesting. And Christmas for us is 18 December (again, due to the two-different-states situation). So it's right around the corner.

Can I add that it tooooootally doesn't feel like it's Christmas? I think it partly has to do with the fact that we're in Florida and we hardly need to wear a jacket despite the fact that it's December. But I'm sure it also has to do with the fact the we are still missing our good ole' Christmas tree.

Be honest, you woulda totally gasped if I ended up not setting up our big tree - huh? Have ya'll ever gone treeless (and I'm I the only one whose mind is in the gutter and thinks of the word 'topless' each time I write 'treeless')? Do tell.

To all things Christmas tree,

Lor