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Advent Calendar ~ Day 3!
Dec. 3rd, 2008 07:49 pm3. When do you put up the tree?
When my brother gets home. Probably about week before Christmas this year, then. Putting it up is a big deal, with lots of Christmas music and light-fiddling and delicious snacks.
Our lights are those damn bubble light things from years ago. On houses I prefer the little twinkly fairy lights (in color, of course—I can see why they’re called fairy lights!), but somehow on the tree the silly bubble lights look good. Most of our decorations have long traditions behind them—my brother’s Coke one goes next to a red light, I put on my engraved 1st Christmas one first, I always get to do those two fancy ones my mom got years ago because they’re my favorites.*
The biggest deal, though, is the selection process, which is long and arduous with Dad. He must inspect every tree, and then reinspect them, while all of us stand around the tree he will eventually buy (we know which one it is) and say, “Let’s just get this one and go, dangit!”
*Remember those weird styrofoam globes with the hair they had you pin sequins to in preschool, back before pins became Total Preschool Taboo? They’re made from a couple of those, but they’re really pretty. Go figure.
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