For years, there has been a bitter and fruitless debate at our house as to whether we should get a live or articial (fake!!!) tree. This year, however, the children reached the age of franchise in such matters and proved to be the swing vote.
"Can we please get an artificial tree so we don't have to keep buying a tree that just dies and has to be thrown out?"
I was aghast. Even after close questioning "Did your dad put you up to this?" they insisted this is what they really want, and that indeed the idea came from their "own brains".
Apparantly, my assurances that Christmas trees have a satisfactory afterlife as bark mulch in the local parks has been insufficient.
Tim asks if my Christmas is ruined, and I have manfully replied that it is a damn petty person who pins all their Christmas sentiment on the type of tree in the house.
About half our ornaments are crafty things the kids made at school - a bit heavy on pipe cleaner and toilet paper rolls, but they're delighted every time they come across them, and claim they remember making every single one, even the ones they made when they were two years old.
Since our tinsel is older than the kids, it has disintegrated into little 18 inch bits, which the children are spookily tossing into the higher branches
This week's iPod top 10:
Atomic - Blondie
Let the River Run - Carly Simon
Introduction to Self-awakening yoga - Don Stapleton
All I ask of You - Andrew Lloyd Weber, Phantom of the Opera
Hanging Upside Down - David Byrne, Uh-Oh
Gerizier Basi - Okan Murat Ozturk, Music from the Tea Lands
Loki - Annbjorg Lien, Baba Yaga
If I had a $1,000,000 - Bare Naked Ladies, Gordon
Push the Limits - Enigma, Love, Sensuality, and Desire
Discovery (guided meditation) - Swami Janakananda, Yoga Nidra
We just made the big plunge into fake tree-hood ourselves. Also, I think because we live in a rainforest, the kids think fake trees are in fact even more special than real trees. Mostly it's $$, partly because the whole Xmas tree industry is a bit squicky for both of us. Now we're stressing about having to store it/move with it. I'm voting for keeping it up year round.
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