What's your funniest, sweetest, most touching, or otherwise best Christmas tree story from over the years?
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Carol
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One year we brought home a live tree and several days later it truly was "alive." There were little black bugs all over in our living room that apparently had hatched.
When Andrew was about 12, he saw our tree in the garage - Mike was working and hadn't gotten it set up yet - and he decided to "help" by evening up the bottom. Well, he evened, and he evened - and by the time he realized what he'd done, there wasn't a lot of "bottom" left to it. He still gets teased sometimes about that tree.
every year i wrap the lights from the top down, and when i get to the bottom, it's not the end that can be plugged in. you'd think i would get it right one of these years, but it's to be expected anymore.
One year I went shopping and Jerry took the kids to get a tree. They sprayed flock on it and decorated it with candy canes. When I came home, it was all done and very pretty. Sweet.
Our current tree (which is a fake, yes we're lame) is set up inside the Pack-n-Play with all the gifts inside. I just knew my son would try to climb it or otherwise ruin it. This way, we can enjoy having a tree without risking a trip to the ER.
My first year of teaching, my home room mother thought I needed a tree and wouldn't have ornaments for it so she bought a 2' artificial tree and every students brought an ornament for my tree.
I didn't have a star or angel for the top so we put a gingerbread man ornament at the very top. Every year I put that tree up I put the gingerbread man at the top.
Last year I did an ornament purge but kept the gingerbread man. Even though he's not at the top anymore he always makes it onto my tree (when I put it up).
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One year we brought home a live tree and several days later it truly was "alive." There were little black bugs all over in our living room that apparently had hatched.
When Andrew was about 12, he saw our tree in the garage - Mike was working and hadn't gotten it set up yet - and he decided to "help" by evening up the bottom. Well, he evened, and he evened - and by the time he realized what he'd done, there wasn't a lot of "bottom" left to it. He still gets teased sometimes about that tree.
every year i wrap the lights from the top down, and when i get to the bottom, it's not the end that can be plugged in. you'd think i would get it right one of these years, but it's to be expected anymore.
One year I went shopping and Jerry took the kids to get a tree. They sprayed flock on it and decorated it with candy canes. When I came home, it was all done and very pretty. Sweet.
Our current tree (which is a fake, yes we're lame) is set up inside the Pack-n-Play with all the gifts inside. I just knew my son would try to climb it or otherwise ruin it. This way, we can enjoy having a tree without risking a trip to the ER.
My first year of teaching, my home room mother thought I needed a tree and wouldn't have ornaments for it so she bought a 2' artificial tree and every students brought an ornament for my tree.
I didn't have a star or angel for the top so we put a gingerbread man ornament at the very top. Every year I put that tree up I put the gingerbread man at the top.
Last year I did an ornament purge but kept the gingerbread man. Even though he's not at the top anymore he always makes it onto my tree (when I put it up).
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