Please share your favorite Christmas tradition in the comments section. Okay, maybe you have more than one. Just pick one…or two…or whatever you’d like.
From my earliest memory until my own kids were teenagers, we cut our own Christmas tree. We used an artificial one for several years and then we started another tradition. My husband and I along with our adult kids and their families meet up at a local tree farm and cut our trees. Then we usually have a progressive dinner and get to see everyone’s trees. The kids (big and small) love this.
Maybe using an artificial one is more environmentally friendly, but I’m not sure. Farms grow and replant and trees can be recycled. My son’s chickens love them. Teddy Roosevelt felt using a real tree was bad for the earth. Did you know he is the only US President to ban the use of a live Christmas tree at the White House? (According to at least one web site.) If you are worried about it, buy one you can plant.
Anyway, when my dad was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, we used to go to the state park to cut our tree–it was free!!
I remember one year complaining bitterly that the snow was too deep and I couldn’t walk. I was told to pipe down. The snow wasn’t really that deep. I couldn’t make my mother, my father, or any of my three older sisters understand. Maybe it wasn’t that deep for them, but I was only three (or maybe four) and it was a lot deeper with my short legs!!
