oh, christmas tree

As if on cue the snow started to fall early last weekend, giving the perfect backdrop for gathering our Christmas tree.

It has been a number of years since we've gotten to cut down a fresh pine for our Christmas tree.  For the past five years we've opted for an artificial tree because of some darn allergies of mine and Buddy's.  But we've been feeling pretty good this year, so we decided to give it a go.

I love everything about a fresh tree.  The searching, the gathering, the smell of pine in the house.

For the kids this was the first time, or the first time they could remember, getting a fresh tree, and our search was punctuated by having to repeat over and over "that one's too big, the tree needs to fit in our house."

But a spirited search soon revealed a sweet, little, nicely shaped, just tall-enough tree.

So cutting commenced.  Dragging commenced.  Tying it to the roof of the car commenced.

The kids were so excited to get the tree home, and inside, and decorated.

Too bad that within an hour of our perfect little O Tannenbaum being indoors that I realized we had made a mistake.  A big mistake.  Buddy was sneezing, I was getting a scratchy throat.

The tree had. to. go.

So, we've ended up with a sweet, little, nicely shaped, just tall enough, fresh cut tree on the patio. 

All it needs now are some birdseed decorations to make it complete.  I'll have to see about that.