Christmas at our House
Christmas Trees
Carol of the Bells
I got the large tree out of the utility room, put two strands of lights on it and hung all the decorations on the branches. It was beautiful. The 2 strands of lights twinkled and faded in at out at slightly different times, the Christmas ornaments picked up the sparkling lights and the angel at the top of the tree was the most beautiful angel ever. Hmmmm, I thought the tree looked a bit shorter than it was supposed to.
I had just got my coffee and was sitting enjoying the beautiful tree and soft Christmas music when Mom called. She said that she was going to drop by in a few hours and pick up her tree that she had stored in my utility room last December.
I hung the phone up, slowly put my coffee cup down and starred long and hard at my beautiful Christmas tree.
"This is my tree, right? This really is MY tree, isn't it?"
Was this really my tree? Or had I grabbed Mom's Christmas tree instead? Ummmm . . . I really do believe that my tree was a bit taller.
Aggggghhhhh! I had grabbed my mother's Christmas tree, put it up, and decorated it!
Well . . . there is no way I am going to take those ornaments and lights off that tree. Just no way at all. There's only one thing that I can do. There's just no other way to do it-- no way at all-- except to unplug the lights, and carry the tree, ornaments and all to Mom's car when she pulled in to get her tree.
Mom's tree trimming would certainly be easy this year. All she would have to do is get the tree from the car, into the house, and plug it in.
Just as I was recovering from shock and preparing myself to decorate another tree from scratch, Mom called again. Mom had dropped by my sister's house and my sister mentioned that she had brought down Mom's Christmas tree from the attic while she was bringing her own decorations down. My sister wanted to know if Mom wanted to take the tree home with her.
Laughter of delight, and also relief, rang through the house and over the phone.
I hung the phone up, grabbed a fresh cup of coffee and settled down for a long relaxing time of admiring the Christmas tree I had almost lost!
I tried doing something really simple and easy last year at Christmas when it came time to set the tree up. I had decorated a small three foot artificial tree for the office the year before and instead of removing the small bulbs, decorations and lights, I just left them on the tree and pulled a large trash bag over the tree and tied it closed.
Instead of dragging the big one out and setting it up-- after moving all the furniture to place the big tree in front of the window,I decided to bring the little tree in and just set it on the end table by the window. It looked very good there, was the right size, fit into the space nicely and all I had to do was plug the lights in.
My daughter visited shortly after I set the tree up and had a fit! It seems that Christmas is just not Christmas without the huge tree and every decoration I own draped around the tree, on every table, and in every niche and cranny.
So again this year I will be dragging every box of decorations down and setting up a huge tree again. Oh well, it won't take but a day to re-pack all the Christmas decorations, and move all the furniture back in place . . .I hope!
A candle's but a little thing-- It starts with just a bit of string-- Yet dipped and dipped with patient hand-- It gathers wax upon the stand-- Until, complete and snowy white-- it gives at last a lovely light.
Life seems so like that bit of string-- Each deed we do, a simple thing -- Yet day by day if on life's strand-- We work with patient heart and hand-- It gathers joy, makes dark days bright-- And gives at last a lovely light.
Author Unknown
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