It’s Coming
Topic: Uncategorized| 1 Comment »Yesterday I saw a car with a Christmas tree attached to its roof. Yes! Yes! Yes! My Christmas mood is kicking into high gear.
I already took down Thanksgiving decor and put up Christmas ornaments. We played Czech Christmas carols all Sunday. But it just doesn’t feel totally like Christmas until I have a wreath on the door and a Christmas tree in the living room. I am hoping to get the wreath done today. I always make my own from branches from the back yard. The plan is get the Christmas tree on Saturday possibly Friday night depending on David’s time or my persuasion skills. I can hardly type I am so excited. I have all the tree ornaments lined up in the back room. Is there anything more magical than waking up in the morning and smell air permeated with sap. I despise fake Christmas trees. Oh, I also got 4 more houses for our Christmas tree village. Our village is made of primitive wooden block houses. Our only villager is a moose that is taller than the houses. We have an HO scale train that goes around the Christmas tree. Gosh, I wonder if I could convince David to go Christmas tree shopping this morning.
BTW, Costco will be selling real Christmas trees this year for about 44 dollars. The one they had in store and it looked fantastic.
I got our 2012 family calendar finalized and ordered yesterday. It is always such a relief to get that done.
We are taking our Christmas card photo tonight. This morning I will be battling the labels. I dread that. I have the address book updated but getting the printer to print labels is apparently like asking it to shovel snow.
Oh. Oh. I got a new set of Christmas cookie cutters. I will be making my own ginger bread and cutting the shapes out and then frosting them. They will be one of Christmas tree decorations. We dont use glass ornaments. Everything I have on the tree is natural–wooden, straw, and gingerbread ornaments plus whole walnuts. We also put real candles and sparklers on the tree. I am very uncompromising when it comes to Christmas–I try to make it as Czech as possible. I dont make fish for Christmas dinner as I dont like fish but otherwise I try to keep the Czech traditions alive and strong.
What else?
Oh, we are sick. We have a terrible cough and I lost my voice.
Thanksgiving in Phoenix was lovely. Great to see everyone and catch up.
Love you all,
Sandy
November 29th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
We bought our Christmas tree from a great little nursery down the street. Douglas fir, $32 with tax and it stands taller than Adam. And it smells like glory in the highest in here.
And we decorate our Christmas tree every year with popcorn, cranberries, cinnamon sticks and orange slices. It’s going to be a fragrant little shrub this year.