O Tannenbaum
oh how i love the holiday season! i have lots more november posts i want to work on but for now i can't resist jumping straight into the christmas merrymaking!
on a bright afternoon last week just before the rainstorms came, we headed out to find this year's christmas tree.
we went back to the organic farm from last year, when this little toot was about as big as a blueberry inside me.
to our dismay there was a sign up that read "closed for the 2012 season"and a for sale sign for the property (anyone? christmas tree farm and massive organic vegetable garden? 3 parcels of 3 acres each? sound good?)
luckily, darin knows the owner nancy, who just happened to be walking by. he jumped out to say hello and she let us go pick out a tree. he asked how much and she said, "Aw, have a tree! Merry Christmas!" hooray for a free organic tree!
lucy sported a little santa hat that addie and i wore when we were babies. pretty cute, eh?
facing a forest of lovely evergreen trees that have gone just a little bit ragamuffin, knowing you get to choose one and take it home to lovingly decorate and live with for a while, is such a treat. it's a little bit sad too and ideally we'd have a potted live tree, but cutting our own down is such an endearing tradition!
there were many beauties so it didn't take long.
we love our full shaggy guy.
the boys:
and us girls:
oh how she loves to pretend she drinks coffee. she likes to be one of the gang.
the boys took turns carrying the tree back through the forest.
santa's acres is now defunct, kinda sad and charming in its own way. we dreamed of sprucing it up and making it cozy again, buying the land and running the place, serving up hot cocoa and candycanes while the boys cut down and carried trees for cityfolk. oh man, i am a daydreamer extraordinaire.
i love getting a christmas tree because it is a little spot of bright wild nature brought inside the house to remind us of fecundity and the earth's bounty in the heart of winter. i love the smell of pine and the way the needles fall and having to give it water and the way my cats bat at the bottom boughs. and watching my baby discover all this makes it even better.
happy december to you all! i'll show you the ornamented version in another post.
Comments
Happy december:-)
always a joy to wake up and see you have posted more pictures of Miss Lucy's sweet smile, she is sooo darn cute!!!(and getting so big oh my) Morning brew and a smiling baby anyday. xoxo
and what a striking, gorgeous family!!
that daddy man darin is looking extra fly and suave in his coming salt n peppa days.
i day dream of christmas tree farms too. is that stephanie's former place?
lucy gnawing on emily's cup is the BEST! i love those things that babies do.
What a special tree for Lucy's first Christmas, embodying wild nature as well as the spirit of giving, perfect :)
Such men! Carrying trees through the forrest- hehe I love it. I too LOVE having a tree in the house, the fresh pine smell and the lights of course. You candy cane Christmas tree stand sounds fabulous, you just let me know when you open it... I'll be there! I'm a hopelessly optimistic daydreamer too, but it doesn't usually let me down- dreamers make things happen!!! :D XO lady!
Lucy grows more and more beautiful, and her momma with her!
and yay for serendipity! how fortunate that you were there at just the right time, and how sweetly generous of the owner to give you a tree! talk about the magic of christmas! also, that bright yellow tree with the pine in back...stunning. and also #2, i daydream like that too...i love building castles in the air!
i am super swamped with life right now and haven't been able to comment much, but i'm here mama! reading along and sending you love! xoxo