Oh Christmas Tree

We had our own version of a Charlie Brown Christmas tree this year thanks to yours truly and her cheap...errr...frugal self. We went on the hunt for a Christmas tree early in December, but I just couldn't bring myself to fork over $50-$60 bucks for something we were just going to roast mallows over in less than a month! So I decided that it would be so smart to go and get the tree on Christmas Eve, because hey, they're probably GIVING them away then, and besides, traditionally the tree wasn't set up until then anyways. So Christmas Eve rolls around and we finally venture out of the house to go get it at 4 p.m, completely oblivious to the fact that most places would be closing early. We got to Home Depot just as they were closing the tree lot and the salesman wouldn't let us grab one. There must have been 50 trees in there! After I got over being ticked off about that (and realizing that the poor man probably wanted to get home to his family and didn't care about my procrastination) we tried about a dozen other places that were also closed. At this point Eva was making it clear that she didn't care about getting a tree anymore. Thankfully we have a large pine tree in the back yard with lovely limbs. :) I personally was quite pleased with the way our little pine limb turned out.