Christmas Tree Is Up

This weekend we got the tree up. As we always do, we put it up a bit early so we can enjoy it before we make holiday trips home. We got a tree as always at the jumbo, this being the smoothest bus ride home yet. I finally have a good process down for getting the tree home on the bus. Pick it up at the jumbo, strap it to my pull shopping cart, and drag it home.

I was a bit worried about not having enough lights since the little Italian Christmas lights are so expensive. As I approached the bottom half of the tree I was dreading I would run out. At 20 USD for 100 lights it is quite a shock to have to pay so much. My wife pulled the unused set of lights out of the Christmas decoration box all the while telling me not to worry, we had plenty of lights. To my surprise I had invested the 20 bucks last year in a set of lights that I never even opened.

I know we put our tree up early, but its after Thanksgiving so I somehow feel justified in having it up.