Behold the Tree

After five years of marriage I was really tired of the same way my tree looked year after year. I have this gold ribbon that I’ve used and I wasn’t looking forward to dragging it out again. At the same time, I didn’t want to financially invest in all new stuff this year. So I was glad to get an idea from Megan—stringing cranberries and popcorn. But I hear that hers has dried oranges in it, so it probably looks even cooler. Maybe she’ll post pictures. (Hint, hint.)

Anyway, I love the look of the tree this year! Very classy. I will admit, however, that it was time consuming—it took watching about six episodes of Alias before I finally finished. And my fingers were stained red for about a day.

One more comment on the tree—there is no way we will be able to ever get an artificial tree as long as our kids our young. Meredith was so excited to go tree shopping that she was literally bouncing the entire time. Kevin was the one designated to pull the various trees out for inspection. And Meredith and I were the dutiful judges. She kept saying, “How ‘bout this one daddy?!” It was so cute. I would not miss out on this yearly tradition for anything. Next year, though, I do have romantic notions of going to cut down a fresh tree.

The picture of the tree is kind of blurry. Just think of it as impressionist photography. :)