For years I’ve wanted to go cut down a Christmas tree with our family, and we looked into it last year but couldn’t find a tree farm nearby. Here they have lots of them that aren’t too far from our house, so we went and found a good one at a place just north of here. The boys enjoyed finding the tree, and we got it cut down and then they watched it go through the bailing machine, and each boy brought home his own little piece of twine from the machine. I think we’ll probably go to the same tree farm again next year – it was just someone’s farm house, and they even gave us a cute little ornament hand painted by their grandparents, who they said made an ornament for everyone who gets a tree at their farm. How sweet! Anyways, we did learn one thing we will do differently next year – going at 4pm isn’t early enough to pick out and cut down a tree with all of our little helpers and finish before dark, on winter days when it gets dark earlier. But it was fun to go and do it together, plus our tree was so fresh that it stayed nice and green until a week after Christmas, even when we forgot to give it any water for the last couple weeks.
02 January 2010
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