We got a Christmas tree today. This is pretty early for us — usually we’d get it around December 15 or whatever the date that Saturday would be. But this year it seems like everyone is getting their tree early and tree lots in our area were selling out. And you can’t have a COVID-19 Christmas at home without a Christmas tree! Well, you could, but I definitely wanted a tree. And my husband refuses to have a fake tree. I think they’re so much easier — no watering, no clean up, the damn thing is less likely to fall down in our living room, but I’ve learned to pick my battles, and I’d much rather he clean up that pile of useless crap in the spare bedroom…
We always buy our tree from one of the Boy Scouts lots in our town. Sure the trees are overpriced and most times they’re pretty darn ugly too, but the kids that work in the lot are just so stinking cute (Is that even possible?? Can “cute” be stinky?? I might need to go pull out my dictionary for this one…) and they try to be so helpful that we just can’t purchase our tree anywhere else. And it’s just so much fun watching the scouts carry our tree out of the lot to our truck — the tree is obviously so much bigger than the kids. Maybe that’s why it costs so much — the price is for the entertainment! And it’s well worth it!
So this is as far as we got today:
The tree is purchased, it’s standing safely in the tree stand (fingers crossed it remains upright!), and I poured a ton of water mixed with white sugar into the stand. Now it will be an absolute Christmas miracle if we get organized enough to start decorating it sometime this week. Or next week would be perfectly fine too.
But the tree is up — we are actually ahead of the holiday game this year! Please don’t tell anyone…
Notes from a Self Quarantine 