So this year we decided to go with a real Christmas tree instead of our pre-lit artificial one. I love the smell of real Christmas trees. Kent and I haven't had a real one since we've been married.. Kent's sister and her husband cut us down a tree and brought it home to us this past weekend. It's a cute little tree.
Last night the kids finally talked me into lighting the tree and setting up Christmas stuff. We have had a bit of a struggle finding a tree stand for it. The one I picked up was really big so we bought a smaller one but it's almost too small. Kent finally got it to stand up but we had to be careful so it wouldn't fall over. Well, at 10:00pm last night the tree is finally lighted and Christmas is up. I walked out to the kitchen for a minute when I hear a crash. I run out to the living room and Benjamin has a huge grin on his face. He decided to play with the tree and tipped it over. Our ornaments that we just carefully placed on the tree were now on the floor. I quickly just hung them wherever and told the kids to get to bed. I turn out all the lights and went to bed myself.
At 3:00 this morning I hear a crash. I'm half way asleep so subconsciously I thought it was my bird hitting the bottom of the cage. I hurried and got up to go see if she's ok. She is just fine but my tree is laying on it's side....AGAIN!! Kids are all in bed so I secretly swear at this stupid tree stand, pick the tree up, put the fallen ornaments under the tree, and text Kent to fix it when he gets home. When Kent got home, he put it in the "big" tree stand to see if it will work any better. I guess we'll see. At this point, I'm thinking our artificial pre-lit tree might be a whole lot more stress...I'll just put on a candle for the smell.
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Sounds like the movie "Christmas Vacation". If anything could go wrong....it will! You will look back at this one day and laugh about it. In the meantime, hang in there, good luck and try to "enjoy?" the holidays.
Hopefully it works out! I always had a real Christmas tree growing up, but like you, since we've gotten married we've done the artificial tree. However, over here we do the real tree because there's no place to store an artificial one. We'll see how our set up goes on Saturday... Wish us luck! :)
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