when I was a kid, one of my favorite things about christmas was the smell / scent of the tree. i loved the way it filled the whole house, and i loved coming home during the christmas season, because you could smell the tree as soon as you opened the door. and I always felt sorry for those people who only bought a fake / plastic tree in the store. i would imagine that when i grow up i would always buy one of those really BIG and TALL beautiful trees that reach up to the ceiling of the room.
when arpi and i got married, for our first christmas together we bought a - what i would call - medium-sized tree, as there were no kids yet to buy a big one for, and our apartment wasn't too big either. ditto for our second christmas together. we spent our third christmas together visiting friends in america, so no tree then. last year, nina was tiny, and we spent the holidays visiting our respective parents, so we decided not to get a tree at all. yes, there were trees at our parents' houses, but that is not the same.
but this year is different. we got a tree! after two years without one, i was so excited to get a real christmas tree. well, to make a long story short, the more we thought about it in the light of having a toddler in the house, the more reasonable it seemed to just get a fake. so i broke down and we did exactly that.
we decorated it today, and when she saw it, nina couldn't get enough of it. mesmerized is not a strong enough expression to describe her reaction. so here they are, nina and her first christmas tree.
when arpi and i got married, for our first christmas together we bought a - what i would call - medium-sized tree, as there were no kids yet to buy a big one for, and our apartment wasn't too big either. ditto for our second christmas together. we spent our third christmas together visiting friends in america, so no tree then. last year, nina was tiny, and we spent the holidays visiting our respective parents, so we decided not to get a tree at all. yes, there were trees at our parents' houses, but that is not the same.
but this year is different. we got a tree! after two years without one, i was so excited to get a real christmas tree. well, to make a long story short, the more we thought about it in the light of having a toddler in the house, the more reasonable it seemed to just get a fake. so i broke down and we did exactly that.
we decorated it today, and when she saw it, nina couldn't get enough of it. mesmerized is not a strong enough expression to describe her reaction. so here they are, nina and her first christmas tree.
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that face of hers is priceless...:-)
oh, and do you remember that our first christmas tree shed all its needles in one weekend? it filled the corner where it stood with a huge heap of needles by the time we got home from visiting our families :)
i thought you will decorate the tree only on the 24th, in the evening...or is this a different habbit in croatia???
dear nyalóka.
we don't know what the custom is in croatia.
we live in hungary and you are right, the tradition is to decorate the tree on the 24th of december in the evening. however we will be visiting family at that time, so we had to do something now, so we don't return home and have no tree. i hope you don't mind our parting with traditions.
We've never had a tree; last year we thought about it, but then decided against it, thinking it would be too dirty. Instead we got a bunch of pine tree branches and decorated the house - which turned out to be a big mistake. Instead of having a mess of needles in one place, we have heaps of needles in 5 places. That's what we get for trying to break tradition.
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