O Tannenbaum

Our Christmas tree is up. Thank you to Scott's parents for buying it for us. This is our first real tree in years, and it really is lovely. I always had a real tree growing up, and so I wanted to start that tradition again now that I have my own child. I was a bit worried that the cats would go crazy over it and scratch the heck out of the trunk and possibly even tip it over. Due to that fear, I decided not to hang any of my glass ornaments, and only use unbreakable ones. Thankfully, I have a lot that are not glass, so unless you're crazy anal like me, you'd never notice it was missing a few. Besides, this year I added a few extra touches such as a pretty paper ring garland and a hand strung cranberry garland. Which, believe me, is a heck of a lot more charming sounding than it actually is. It was a pain to string together, and now I realize that I have hung tiny red berries on my tree that will continue to rot and probably drop off until I take the tree down in January. Oh, to Tradition!