Christmas is always a special time of year for us. There is only the two of us but thanks to our good friends the Eskirdges we have lots of fun traditions! They started us off with the "Christmas mug" tradition, collecting mugs that would and could only be used at Christmas time. That being our first Christmas as a married couple, and our friends impressing on us the importance of family traditions we felt the need to start our own family tradition. We thought long and hard on this and came up with nothing. We were watching our Christmas tree get a fresh cut off the bottom at the Home Depot when Justin said why not have them cut an extra slice off the stump and we'll keep it? I of course had to add my two cents and add decorating it and using it as a ornament! So we have five little slices for every year we have been a family and have decorated them with sharpies. Well now that we live in the Philippines and being this is a tropical island we have found there to be a shortage of live Christmas tree farms, well the truth is there is NO Christmas tree farms any where! We have been able to find fake Christmas tree all over, let me remind you the Philippines never had Pilgrims or Indians so they do not celebrate Thanksgiving and seeing they have only two seasons, wet and dry, there is no Fall, So we have found Christmas coming upon us quite a bit sooner than we had expected, September 1 to be exact! So every kind of fake tree has been found and it's only Nov.15 but NO pine tree stumps to be had! Until now!!! You see for my Birthday party we took a few of our friends to a mall and celebrated at Starbucks! While on our way we walked through a department store and found the coolest fake green glitter wire tree but that wasn't the BEST part! this fake wired glittered tree was mounted on a thick slice of REAL PINE TREE!!! The LORD does give us the desires of our hearts even the crazy family tradition desires! The price is right too only 165.00 P the P stands for peso and that is equal to about $4.00 US!! Praise the LORD!!!! We won't have to have a bright RED tree after all!
Mark 9
15 years ago
2 comments:
Ummmm, HELLO!!!!! What about that awesome pink one? That is my dream tree. Aaron dreams of a silver aluminium tree. The kind with the lights shining on it. We may be forgoing a real tree someday soon.
We still break out our Christmas mugs every year, and this year I think James will remember them from last year. He and William will fight over them all, I'm sure.
Merry Christmas!
I would agree with you if this was a Pink tree but it is not it is rather a hyper red! Not even close to Pink! Ugly is how we describe this mockery of nature. Justin's input is, he agrees with Aaron. Any who we got a tree and that will be next blog! very exciting!
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