Our First Real Christmas Tree
Original posted 12/8/06
It's time to share another craft!
This one is a bit lame.
Years ago, when we only had one child, my husband and I would travel about 30 miles with our friends to her parent's farm and tramps about out in fields looking for the perfect Christmas tree and cut it down ourselves. I remember stories of my parents doing that when they were first married and I was thankful to have a friend that could offer that to us also.
When we put up our first real Christmas tree, it was WAY too tall for the ceiling. Amazing how much bigger it was in the house than the fields. So we had to cut off the bottom of the stem. Sentimental me, I could not just throw it away, I had to keep it as a keepsake to represent our first real tree.
But what to do with it? It was just a block of wood. This is what I ended up doing with it, a bit lame, but it does get unpacked and displayed every year.
The arrival of our electric train under the tree eventually did away with our real tree years.
It's time to share another craft!
This one is a bit lame.
Years ago, when we only had one child, my husband and I would travel about 30 miles with our friends to her parent's farm and tramps about out in fields looking for the perfect Christmas tree and cut it down ourselves. I remember stories of my parents doing that when they were first married and I was thankful to have a friend that could offer that to us also.
When we put up our first real Christmas tree, it was WAY too tall for the ceiling. Amazing how much bigger it was in the house than the fields. So we had to cut off the bottom of the stem. Sentimental me, I could not just throw it away, I had to keep it as a keepsake to represent our first real tree.
But what to do with it? It was just a block of wood. This is what I ended up doing with it, a bit lame, but it does get unpacked and displayed every year.
The arrival of our electric train under the tree eventually did away with our real tree years.
6 comments:
I love it!! When we lived in Oregon we always went out and cut our own trees. My husband would get up a few days after Christmas, take every thing off of the tree and then cut off each branch, finally ending with a clean pole. We had one of them for years.. it make a perfect tamping stick..... memorys lol
To cute! Thanks for sharing your special Christmas tree with us.
Nothing lame about this at all. Oh how I wish I had save a piece of our first real Christmas Tree from over 50 years ago!
A very precious memory for you.
I think it is awesome you have it to remember your 1st rel Christmas tree! I could see myself doing something like that. All we have are our the stories of getting a tree.
I think this is awesome that you still have a part of your first tree!
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That is just great! You will never forgot those memories. We have some kid-made ornaments from years ago that are mere shadows of their former incarnations. Still, can't bear to part with them.
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