Good Grief

It is time for Christmas trees and decorations and this year I wanted a HUGE BIG Beautiful Full Christmas tree for our new home.
I had it all planned out. It would be so big I would have to buy like 5 boxes of brand new ornaments to help decorate it in addition to the box of ornaments I have had for years. However my husband Steve had completely other plans.

I have known and lived with this man for almost 8 years and never had the foggiest clue he was a tree hugger!!! When I outlined my plans for a real tree this year instead of using the old artificial standby he threw up such a fit I was in shock and awe! He was so against the whole establishment of cutting down beautiful trees so we can display them and watch them die for our own amusement it made me feel horrible just for thinking of such a thing.
My argument that the trees were grown just so we can do this seemed to hold no weight with him. His alternative...how about we buy a live Christmas tree!
A Christmas tree that we could keep year after year and then eventually plant in our backyard. He assured me it would be every bit as good as a cut tree and even better than our artificial tree.

So I was given that info to chew on for a few days, and ultimately decided that a live tree would be the "green" thing to do. I am all about being "green" and I liked the idea it would not only provide us a tree for this year but for years to come.
So I agreed.

Off we went to the nursery that proudly displayed, "We have live Christmas trees!!" So we went into the Nursery and to my utter dismay they did have Christmas trees but these were not the big gorgeous trees that are displayed at every street corner, but little trees that I can only explain as "Charlie Brown" Christmas trees.

So although I was about to cry, and pretty much outraged at the injustice of havign to have a 4ft Christmas tree, I compromised and picked one out...My husband named it.... "Good Grief".

It is a cute little tree...and although not beautiful and full now..it will be with us hopefully for many years to come!!

Please meet, "Good Grief"


Here is another picture to give you something to gauge it's size on.