Originally Posted by
Beachbound
I love our Christmas tree!!! It'a a 12 foot monster that takes 4 days to put up but it had 40 years of memories all over it. I have booties from each of my kids & grands, VBS crafts, preschool crafts, pictures, pictures & more picture ornaments. I do keep it up 6 weeks tho, so it's worth it!
Oh please take a picture when you have it up. We have a couple of trees, an led one in the hall at the front door, an 8 foot one in the sunroom and one very bedraggled tree (it was our first tree after we got married) that goes in the kitchen. When does everybody put their tree up? It's tradition here to put it up after the holy day (the 8th December). It's bad luck to have it up before then and bad luck to leave it up after the 6th January.
Like you we have stuff the girls made over the years, decorations we've collected on holidays and each year I try to buy a new Swarovski for the tree and a Newbridge (factory in Co. Kildare that makes decorations, photo frames, jewellery) ornament as well.