The Christmas tree discussion
We have a couple of different artificial Christmas trees here at home. Our favorite one is very large, but since I was injured in the car accident I find it difficult to drag it upstairs and set it up. And for some reason one of our dogs is attracted to the wires of the lights in the bottom row of branches and she keeps chewing the wires. And as the nature of Christmas tree lights go, the entire string of lights is ruined. So I am understandably reluctant to have the large tree. But just having one or two of the small trees just seems so inadequate!
When we use the small tree we have a hard time deciding which ornaments to put on the tree – the large tree can hold them all. My wife gets very upset when she has to pick and choose which ornaments get to come out of the storage box and which ones get passed over. I know that she made most of them herself, and it is like having to choose one favorite child. That’s almost impossible for her to do!