It is Monday morning and does it ever feel nice to wake slowly and get up slowly and the Daughters are still in bed sleeping.... Hubby is making breakfast. Tea is forth coming and the tree dilemma has been solved. (sigh... a nice relaxed sigh).
Yesterday, when daylight finally came Hubby and I took a couple of cups of hot chocolate and headed off toward FSJ to look for a tree. We felt that if we found a real tree somewhere along the highway, well and good, we would cut it down and be happy. But if we didn't find one before we got to FSJ then when we got there, we would make a bee-line for Canadian Tire and buy an artificial tree and be done with it. I am happy to say that we never made it to FSJ. We instead, stopped at a well known road side pullout. Off to the right of the road side pullout is a road that leads to an old gravel pit. Trees are growing in this old gravel pit but they are very stunted and grow slowly because of course a gravel pit does not have good soil.... the result is we found one of the nicest trees we've ever had.... what's more is we found another one for our ..... ooops I can't say what we are doing yet.... we also found next year's tree too. We've marked the tree and we will go back for it next year. So I am happy to say that I will not have to purchase a artificial tree for a while yet. Tomorrow the artificial tree that we bought over the weekend will go back for hopefully a full refund which will give me a little more money to spend on Hubby's stocking which is looking like he was a bad boy all year.
When we got home with the tree we discovered that it is bigger than we thought. Hubby was about to lob off a foot or so from the bottom when I got a brilliant idea. It meant moving around furniture again but we have a dining room, a living room, a studio (small), and a tree room!..... I can't wait to finish decorating so that I can post some pictures here. The whole effect is brilliant.
What a difference one day can make... yesterday, Christmas sucked.... today.... well I don't love it but it is a whole lot better than it was!
I think partially because the church pageant is over. It went really well. One of my Knock-out Knitters came. It is great when people come to church that don't normally go. It makes you feel like what you do for the church is worthwhile after all. Thanks L I'm glad you were there.
Christmas eve service is next. I have to work on that since I will be presiding. And though this is the first time I will have presided over the Christmas Eve service, I am not worried about it. It will be lovely.
Gifts wrapped, house decorated, tree up, not too bad for someone who isn't a Christmas aficionado.
One of my favorite Christmas stories is... A Redbird Christmas. If you want to get in the mood here's a sure fire way of doing so....
1. Borrow A Redbird Christmas by Fanny Flagg from your local library....
2. Place it strategically by your favorite comfortable chair....
3. Boil a kettle of water and while doing so, spoon some Carnation Hot Chocolate into your favorite mug....
4. Poor into the powder, three tablespoons of store bought eggnog and stir vigorously.....
5. Poor over this mixture enough boiling water to fill mug.....
6. Sit down in your favorite chair where you located the book earlier....
7. Begin reading and occasionally sipping from the mug of Eggnog Hot Chocolate...
8. Enjoy.....
Merry Christmas!
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