O Christmas Tree

We have a small house. Well, okay, it's not such a small house, but the layout is such that the rooms are small. There's not a lot of room for big items

We used to have this big, glorious, magnificent, majestic tree. It was so large that it brushed the ceiling. Every year, we fell in love with it - for about 10 minutes. Following those 10 minutes, we immediately tried to figure out how in the hell to live around this behemoth.

Last year, we decided that as long as the tree was taller than the tallest child, it was tall enough, so we replaced the beast with a nice 4 and a half footer. Goes up in 10 minutes, comes down in 10 minutes. Still taller than our tallest child - it's perfect.

We decorated it Monday evening. Rather, the boys decorated it. It was the first year that they were old enough to want to and be able to do it themselves. It took my breath away watching them.

A tree has never been so beautiful.