We don't do Christmas trees - opposed to them for atheist and environmental reasons. A fir tree covered with lights and snow is glorious. A pine tree covered with nostalgic ornaments from over the years is also touching. We just don't do it (see reasons above), though Sebastian might wear us down one year...; we have our own traditions instead.
One is for the children to assemble the tinsel tree that has been passed into their care. It must be at least 44 years old, perhaps several years more.
It sat on the bar that my love's grandfather tended and when he realised that his pregnant daughter and son-in-law would spend their first married Christmas without money for a tree, he gave it to them. It's been assembled with pride virtually every year since. Seb received it when he was 3 and each year, he clamours for it to go up. This year it sits in the children's bedroom sparkling in the light of their bedside lamps.
We were invited to trim a tree this season. We headed over to Kevin & Arthur's place last weekend to eat a yummy brunch and then decorate their gorgeous pine (carried home aloft 6 city blocks). Besides the usual circus act that Arthur and the children perform,
it was lovely to hear about each ornament and the trip on which it was bought. And yes, they have a disco ball.
Check out the ever so thoughtful personalised ornaments that Arthur made for the children.
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