The first Christmas The Bob and I were together, we bought a big, beautiful Christmas tree to decorate. We were so excited – egg nog, Christmas carols on the CD player, the whole nine yards. We got the tree home, stuck it in the tree stand and it jutted out at about a 45º angle. The Bob said not to worry, and he took it out in the garage to start cutting off the crooked part. By the time he cut the trunk so that it would be straight in the stand, our 8' tree was down to 4'. What could we do? At first we were upset – our holiday tree decorating was ruined! But then we just started laughing.
The Bob went and got another tree, but we couldn't bring ourselves to get rid of the "first tree" we ever bought together. So, we turned that dinky sawed off tree into our first Chrismtas tradition – the Kitchen Tree. I had a corner I tucked the tree into and decorated it with a ton of oversized fruit ornaments and my mom's old Christmas cookie cutters, similar to the ones shown here. In keeping with the theme, I used a vintage printed tablecloth as a tree skirt.
Since then, we always have a Kitchen Tree. We took what could have been a really rotten situation, and made something cute out of it. What are your holiday traditions? How did they get started? Creating memories is one of the things the holiday season is all about.
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