Since Christmas is only 3 weeks away, Eric and I decided it was time to do some holiday decorating. The only problem is that we do not own any Christmas decorations besides the random assortment of “Our First Christmas”, “Christmas 2006″, and bride and groom ornaments that we received as wedding gifts this time last year. Technically speaking, this is our second married Christmas. But getting married 9 days before Christmas does not allow for any decorating.
So today we perused the Sunday newspaper ads for Christmas tree sales. We have debated for a couple weeks as to whether we should go with a live tree vs. artificial. I have vivid memories of my family attempting to set up the live tree in our family room, pine needles everywhere, my mom constantly fretting over proper hydration, and of course, my dad using string tied to nails in the ceiling to secure the tree to prevent the thing from falling over. I can’t recall how many years this continued (not many) but do know the feeling of relief experienced by everyone when we converted back to the artificial tree.
Consequently, when I retold my past experiences to Eric, it was an obvious decision. We both are totally for low maintenance. So today we drove around Anchorage to do some price comparison shopping. Since our ceilings are 10 feet tall we thought we could definately manage a 9 foot tree. What we failed to consider is that the taller the tree usually the wider the tree (unless you go with the slim version that doesn’t look even remotely natural). Here it would be pertinent for me to mention that our dwelling is only 12 feet wide.
Long story short, we ended buying a 9 foot tree but failed to realize that it has a 6 foot diameter – hahahaha. We set it up, turned on the lights, admired it from the sidewalk (from the viewpoint of neighbors – I learned this from my mom) as it sparkled through the window, opened a bottle of champagne, listened to Christmas music, took Rudy’s Christmas photo in front of the tree, laughed really really hard, — and came to the conclusion that we will return it tommorrow for the smaller version and purchase our 2nd Christmas tree.
Now all we need are ornaments…
1 Comment
December 6, 2007 at 4:35 am
Nice tree, a bit large when your house is only 12 feet wide though