Christmas is in the air, and I love it! Last year we got a little tiny fake tree because we were on a budget and couldn't fit anything taller than a toddler in our apartment. But THIS year, oh man, we got ourselves a REAL tree. A real BIG tree!
My Dad and Stepmom Ann were in town for Thankgiving so we all piled in the car and went to Clyde's and Dale's Christmas Tree farm on Saturday afternoon. If you live in Olympia, definitely check this place out; they have pretty clydesdale horses and a carriage that you can ride in. It's fun.
After we worked real hard watching the nice boy scouts cut it down, we loaded it up and drove that baby home.
We decorated it all pretty and called it a day.
Yes, those are the most lovely ornaments ever! I never collect anything. If I haven't used something in 3 months, its out of our house and off to the trash or goodwill. BUT, i can't resist these little things from Starbucks, they're magnificent.
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What a blessed time you had! Aren't traditions wonderful?!..... The fir tree has a long association with Christianity, it began in Germany almost 1,000 years ago when St Boniface, who converted the German people to Christianity, was said to have come across a group of pagans worshipping an oak tree. In anger, St Boniface is said to have cut down the oak tree and to his amazement a young fir tree sprung up from the roots of the oak tree. St Boniface took this as a sign of the Christian faith. But it was not until the 16th century that fir trees were brought indoors at Christmas time.
Why do we have a decorated Christmas Tree? In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. He did many good works there, and spent much time in Thuringia, an area which was to become the cradle of the Christmas Decoration Industry.
Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to describe the Holy Trinity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The converted people began to revere the Fir tree as God's Tree, as they had previously revered the Oak. By the 12th century it was being hung, upside-down, from ceilings at Christmastime in Central Europe, as a symbol of Christianity.
The first decorated tree was at Riga in Latvia, in 1510. In the early 16th century, Martin Luther is said to have decorated a small Christmas Tree with candles, to show his children how the stars twinkled through the dark night.
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