Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

This year we have a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. Thanks to Dave Ramsey we have a hand chopped, child decorated, leaning, sparsely limbed, and completely free Christmas tree. And you know what? I LOVE IT!

I love everything about it. I love that Jake chopped it down single-handedly with an axe. He's such a frontiersman. After the chop job we let the tree "air-out" in the garage for a week because we were afraid that something may crawl out once the tree was placed inside.

I love that Jake and Simi decorated it, not with traditional ornaments mind you, but with bits of ribbon, colored lights, and a festive red gift bag. Just because it makes sense to a seven and four year old.

And yes, I even love that the tree is held up by a single bungee cord from the back. Because of the angle of the camera you can't fully appreciate the lean of the tree. It's stunning.

But you know what, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between between this Christmas tree and a farmed tree come December 31 at 6:00pm when 150 trees will go up in smoke in our front yard. It's just a bonus if the fire department shows up...