The last day of November means one thing to me: tomorrow the Christmas tree and decorations go up. Yippeee, I love Christmas. I love staring at the tree and watching twinkling lights. I’ve dragged the tree and decorations box down from upstairs, hung...

When I was growing up we always strung popcorn for the Christmas tree. It was a family tradition from my mother's childhood. My father would pop a huge tub (as in laundry tub) of plain popcorn; my mother would distribute...

the christmas tree lot near our neighborhood has been packed with customers these last few days. the kids were all getting worried about not getting a good tree this year. So I rounded up the kids this afternoon and took them to find us a tree. they we...

Kevin bought some ready made sugar cookie dough today and we put Gavin to work cutting and decorating Christmas cookies: You may not have noticed in the first picture that these are not your ordinary Christmas cookies. Oh no. These are Christmas tree spr...

I’ve been worried about the Christmas tree people.  Every year since I moved here, there was a group of half a dozen French Canadians who set up shop selling trees, on both sides of the street outside the grocery store in my neighborhood.  They ha...

Tis the season for perfection and frustration! Yes it is time once again, for the Christmas Tree to go up at the Davis house and with it will come pain, suffering and very likely wailing and gnashing of teeth. Give the video a watch.