It's only November!
It was Halloween five minutes ago!
You need locking up woman!
And maybe I do, but where's the fun in that. So here it is, Chloe's first "It's only the middle of November and you're mad you are Christmas Tree".
You never forget your first Christmas tree or at least I didn't forget mine. It was tiny, about two foot tall and all the decorations and lights were permanently attached to it so 'putting up the Christmas tree' for me meant taking it out of the box, demangling the branches a little and plugging it in. Not much I know, but it was mine and I was the boss of that tree. It stayed in the box in the bottom of my wardrobe and it was up to me when I put it up in my room, usually the middle of November.
I can't in all honestly take any credit for Chloe's tree though. My mum first mentioned it a week or so ago that she was going to keep an eye out for a little fibre optic tree she could keep in her bedroom and Robert remembered the spare one we had in the roofspace.
The spare one was my first Christmas tree, I was 17 and working in a job that paid a pittance. I walked to work for two weeks instead of taking the bus so that I could buy that tree. When we moved from Belfast to this house and I bought The Biggest Tree Ever™ I just didn't have the heart to get rid of the old one.
So now it's Chloe's tree, even if it is seven years older than her already.
Robert even took her out last week to pick the decorations for it, pink and purple tinsel and a stack of resin decorations, plus a few of my own. The little wooden nutcracker decorations are the set I bought 12 years ago:) You'll notice though that Robert being Robert, he couldn't resist wrapping up one of her stocking fillers and putting it under the tree to torture her.
Do you think she'll still remember her first tree when she's my age? I hope so.
I certainly think she will still remember it. And, I think it is even more special since it was once your first tree. How sweet.
ReplyDeleteI never had my own tree, but I remember coming home from school two hours before my parents got home from work and getting more than half of our family tree up (plus the nativity set; we were Catholic, after all) before they got home one year when I was eight or nine. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteMy first tree was in my first rented flat in Belfast - a pitiful 12 inch straggly offering .... don't think we still have it!
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