We finally got our Christmas tree on Thursday. Because it’s a real tree and summer here in Australia we can’t afford to buy the tree too early. A week is about right. Given the cost of them this year, possibly because of the drought that covers 80 percent of Australia, it’s a smaller tree than usual. Couldn’t justify the extra expense to get a bigger one. Anyway, it’s still got that Christmas tree smell.
Putting the Christmas tree up turned into a funny exercise with Mick a screwing the screw into the stand while I held the tree firmly. Meanwhile, our little pup thought it was a new kind of game and was licking his hand and growling and playing hide and seek between his legs. It’s like having a child
The day was too busy with other activities to get further with decorating it but Friday afternoon Mick and I got around to it. First Mick put the lights on. Some lights flash on and off in varying color combination. The blue and green combination and the blue and red are my favorites. After this he strung a set of plain lights in the middle in what looks like a heart shape.
Then it was time of the baubles that get carefully saved each year. Many of ours are in varying shades of blue and pink. I particularly like our teardrop shaped baubles in royal blue trimmed with silver. One, a bell made of glass, says Joy to the World. With the colored light shining right behind it and it actually says Joy instead of yoj, as it did some other years because it kept twisting around, it looks good. Other decorations include bells, stars, doves, and rather old world blue baubles with shepherds and sheep on them.
Others look like stained glass church windows. These have been around since our children were small
Another glass one has a nativity scene proclaiming Christ is Born. It got dropped as it was being put on and I thought that was the end of it. Tiled floors are very unforgiving. But somehow it survived- our own little Christmas miracle. So that one, proclaiming the precious Christmas truth, is right at the front.
I’d kept thinking it was a bit of a disappointing tree. But now it’s decorated and tinseled and has its star on top, our Christmas tree looks good. It looks like Christmas at our house, what about yours?
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