When we sold our house and we started packing things up the builder thought that our house would be finished before Christmas. I didn't want to put a tree up and then move it so never planned on putting a tree up in our rental. The house got started later then was planned so our date of completion got pushed to February 6th. All of our Christmas stuff is at the back of the storage unit and we didn't plan on putting up a tree but the girls were not on board with that idea. Some of our ornaments were close enough to get but we didn't have a tree to put them on. We threw a few ideas around of what to do but didn't want to spend much money. Well we got lucky. We were driving around and someone had a Christmas tree on their curb that had a sign saying it was free. Some of the light didn't work but hey it was a tree just what the girls wanted. It is a really nice tree and will probably keep it around for a while. We can string it with new lights.
We always let Madison pick if we put the tree up before her birthday. This is the first year that she didn't want it up so we waited till tonight to do it. We didn't have all our ornaments but the girls were still able to make the tree look nice.
I think minimizing this year will be a good way to help bring the true spirit of Christmas into our home. Many blessings have come to us in the transition period in our life.
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