A Christmas First, er...Second

With only one week to go until Christmas, we were devastated to realized our beloved xmas tree had decided to call it quits. The big beautiful tree we had put up several weeks ago had suddenly stopped drinking water and was shriveling up and browning before our eyes. This has never happened to us before! We initially thought it might still make it to Christmas day, but last night we realized there was just no way!

Our biggest worry was, how can we have Christmas without a tree. Luckily, we still own our fake tree, and despite my adamant protesting that I would never put that thing up again, we were left with little choice. In a whirlwind we whipped down the old tree...shuttled it out to the backyard (where it is hopefully hidden until xmas is over) and assembled a portion of our fake tree (yes, only a portion...it is a very large tree and we figured a small tree was better than none)!

So voila...Christmas is saved! I am trying not to think about tree disassembly number two in a week's time. Sigh