Cutting Down the Tree

The season between Thanksgiving and Christmas is so short this year that I really wanted to get the tree the weekend before Thanksgiving, but with such a full house we wouldn't have had room for the tree and the table in the living room. 

We headed to Bob's Trees, our favorite cut your own farm because they have reindeer and wagon rides. Found the tree right away, in typical fashion. As MiniM.E. kindly informed us, "getting a tree is like looking at the first tree and then having to walk around a farm all day until your legs hurt finding the best tree and just picking the first one that only Mommy likes anyway." This year with four kids in tow and no snow for pulling the sled, we only did a little of the "walking around the farm all day".

Compared to how easy it was to check if all our lights were working, decide they weren't, buy new ones at the store, decided those wouldn't do, and go back to get more lights from a different store, getting the tree this year was a walk in the park!

On the agenda for tomorrow: the rest of the Christmas decorating!