Oh Christmas tree, Oh
Christmas tree(s)
This year we had two
Christmas trees to decorate. Our rather large chaotic one (at our house), which
Eilir and I decorated with the bits and pieces collected and made over the
years (including some that I made with my eldest son 16 years ago as well as a
new one star Eilir made this year!).
The other was a whole
family project - my Mum's living tree that she has been fretting over for
weeks. Hers is a small living one that I bought her four years ago. She didn't
want to bring it in too early for fear of killing it and also couldn't bring it
in herself due to mobility difficulties, so Rixon (aka Eilir's Dad) went over
early on Saturday morning to bring it in from the cold and lift it into pride
of place in the living room.
The second phase of the
mission involved Eilir and myself as the follow-up troops in the afternoon,
dropping in to decorate it and the room - climbing and reaching all the places
my Mum can't get to.
Eilir likes my Mum's tree
because it is short, fat, and misshapen. Growing in a pot on the patio means it
has no competition for light, so it grows outwards not upwards! Eilir
particularly liked attaching string to bags of chocolate coins that my mum had
bought him so that they could hang on the tree.
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