Trim the Tree Tuesday

Good morning all! ALISSA-great question-I love reading everyone's stories...

As a child, we always had a "real tree", and I was always jealous of my "rich friends" who had those silver aluminum tree, with the light wheels that shined on them. Thinking back, was there ever anything UGLIER?? My younger brother and I were always sick over Christmas-nobody knew anything about ALLERGIES back then (to PINE, of course!!)...

I've had an artificial tree..a GREEN one..all my adult life. I like all white lights..no blinking...the topper is a blinking angel I got on Corbin's first Christmas--she's kinda ugly, but she STAYS...our tree is a "trash tree"--full of ornaments the boys made over the years, etc and the ones I got for them each year, with the date, etc. You can tell who was popular what year, etc. We have Cold Stone Steve Austin hanging next to the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, on top of Sponge Bob, etc...My faves are their "First Christmas" ornaments, of course...and those reindeer made of tongue depressors, that seem to have to have their eyes re-glued on every year....

Tonight it's my turn to be my mom's "date" to her annual work party. She works for Sewell Cadillac and they always do cool stuff. Tonight we're going to the Meyerson Symphony-I'm gonna feel like a ho in church-no doubt!

Busy week ay work, and need to scoot out of there early today, so guess I'd better get dressed and hit the road. Hope everyone has a blessed day.

SPECIAL PRAYERS FOR OUR KAREN !!!

Gina AKA Nurse Diva

 

You crack me up!!! Been missing you!

Miss you!  {{HUG}}

no tree for us this year at home since we are leaving thurs - will help decorate when we get to Bro's house - our family tradition has been to make Cmas cookie, decorate them and wrap them in plasic wrap tie iwth a red ribbon and put them on the tree- the fun part is then we see how many we can give to poeple who come over or knock at our door - one Cmas the UPS lady in El Paso loved us -

I used to go all out and have boxes and boxes of orniments, mini village complete with skating rink ski lift and a zillion other extras , towels and soap dishes, plastic - for kids - and fancy  dishes for adults - special mugs -house decorations etc - when Tim and I got togethe we got rid of  a ton of it - kept the nativiys and special orniments and lights and that is about it - I love the simplicity of it now - hang a few flags - set out nativitys all over the house and put lights on the tree and add cookies

This year I put out my banners and flags and 4 or 5 nativitys - NOT the big yard one and it all comes down on wed night  - less depressing when I come home from my awsome trip



busy busyy day

ne good to you n those around you

quick shout out to Karen - be strong hon, lots of tmb prayer warriors going for you plus the fact you are just a great person

and Karla - Tim says thanks for the box - he got it right before he called this am and was enjoying chocolate while getting ready for work LOL

peace
Danni

Will take a fake tree any day of the year!  Ex-wife and I left ours up one year and decorated it with next holiday theme.  Hearts at Valentine's Day, Red, white and blue during the summer...you get the idea.  Present GF and I have not put tree up for this year since I'm in TX, job hunting and seeing docs.  My mother's main tree, a fake, is Texas/cowboy themed.  It is topped with a brown felt Resitol hat.

I'm bummed, found a update tree topper with lightup lightsaber that was perfect but some snowman freak says no to yoda at the top of the tree. She did getme a wonderful Santa yoda snow globe though

Yeah imagine that- not allowing Yoda on our tree! I like or big blue lit up ribbon instead.

HAAA!!!  You made me chuckle this morning! For what it's worth- Sheldon always put Jack Skellington on the top of our tree- right underneath the angel. Kind of a bizarre combination but it saved peace. 

Yoda is the best tree topper can go with my halmark star wars orniments

Good morning Train Riders!  Well due to many years of small apartment living we don't have any tree to speak of.  We have a 14" (yes that inch) fiber optic lighted tree that sits on a shelf and has mini-ornaments on it.  I have a huge box of ornaments that is just waiting for a real tree (or rather a real fake tree).  I'm hoping that next year we can actually set up a tree if we are in a house.  We would always get out the Christmas decorations the weekend of Thanksgiving and start decorating.  We all had our own ornaments, all with stories about them and I still have most of them.  Though I did finally have to get rid of the clay hot dog ornament I made in elementary school, when mold finally started growing on it.  The ornament tradition is one that continues now.  Every year everyone gets a new ornament, and that's something we'll continue with our family.

Yesterday was so beautiful!  Too bad I was stuck inside working all day.  I do wish though that Texas would pick a season and stick with it for more than a week.  I've finally figured out I might as well leave my warm weather clothes hanging up in the closet because I'll definitely need them at least a few times through the winter.  Sheesh!

Today I'm continuing my quest to finish up some projects at work, then tonight I'm meeting ladies from church at Mimi's cafe for dinner.  I'm trying to be very budget conscious so I'll probably just get a bowl of soup.  10 more days till our trip to Maryland and while we're up there we're going to drive up to Long Island to see my brother and SIL.  Should be lots of fun, though the NY trip will cut out some of our site seeing time.  It's all good though, I'd hate to get all the way to MD and miss seeing my brother.

Ok, off to work.  Hope everyone has a fantastic day!!