No Tanenbaum
Last night I decorated our living room for Christmas. Normally I wait until the first of December before breaking out any holiday decorations, or even acknowledging the holiday. I used to go to great lengths to avoid the seasonal sections in stores. But now it seems that Christmas can't be avoided, so I went ahead and embraced it.
Unfortunately, we're going to do without one of my favorite symbols of Christmas...a tree. We can't have one this year, not only because there's no room in our little apartment but also because it would become a perch for the cats almost immediately. Last year when it was just me, Rusty and Cider it wasn't a problem...my cats weren't intrepid enough to cause any real damage to the tree. However, I'm sure Edison and Juneau would get into it for sure, and the last thing I need is to come home to find a toppled tree with a ton of broken ornaments or worse, injured cats. Mike is going to build us an LED Christmas tree, but you can't really hang ornaments from it so it's not the same.
In place of a tree I draped a garland over our windows and hung a few ornaments from it.
These are just a few of my ornaments. Most of them were purchased last year because I had to throw away all of my Christmas ornaments when I lived in Illinois since I didn't have enough room in my car to take them back to Wisconsin. It kind of pains me that my ornaments are so generic because when I was a kid we had a large collection of ornaments and each one had a story. I suppose after a few years these ornaments will be sentamental as well, especially since Mike and I bought most of them together. The three stars were gifts from my mom last Christmas, so they already have some meaning.
All in all, though, I'm pleased that the holiday season is getting underway. Some people get frustrated with Christmas but I still have a bit of the whole childlike wonder. I can't wait to start baking cookies, watching the old cartoons, and listening to the carols. And, of course, on Christmas Eve Mike and I will place our gifts for each other under our garland...
...oh, it's just not the same.
posted by Danulai @ 6:55 AM
3 Comments:
we'll place the LED tree on top of the gifts.
I can completely identify with your situation.
After many years of renting we've had everything from a Christmas Fern to a Christmas Floor Lamp to compensate for our lack of tree.
Even now we only have our three-foot fiberoptic wonder. Bob hates it, but I just cant bring myself to buy a big tree. Not until we buy a house, because theres eleven months in there I have to store the thing, and when you move often, you never know if you'll have a good spot for it at the new place during Christmas anyway.
I have a smallish Christmas tree I could give you. It would probably be small enough to fit in your apartment.
And crappy enough that you wouldn't care if it was destroyed by cats.
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