O/T Christmas Trees

Whenever you decide to put it up, just enjoy it!  Put on some holiday music, burn a pretty smelling candle, make it fun!  But as someone else said, if it's a REAL tree, you probably want to wait until you return...  We try to put ours up as soon after Thanksgiving as we can, but we always cut a fresh tree - so IF we can wait until there's snow, then going out to the farm, picking out the BESTEST tree, cutting it and all that goes along with it, is a huge fun day in itself!  (We already have a big wreath up over our garage door, and a couple of swags on either side - thanks to our hockey-playing neighbor boy!)