Christmas and Julbord:

[jrittenhouse]

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Comments

[danebassett]

sounds like a great Christams (basement flooding aside.)

I was forced to go to artificial trees a few years back. I hated the first one with a passion but then walked into tree heaven at an after Christmas sale at target. I found one that looks so real most people can't tell the difference.

I love it and it keeps me away from that whole nasty anaphalctic shock/ambulance ride/ER thing.

[marklafon]

My parents used to get live trees and plant them in the yard. After a dozen years of this they ran out of yard to plant them in. Nice thought but you need a lot of land if you wand to do it for long.

[danebassett]

I have the yard space to do something of the kind but unfortunately even that is too close for me.

[one_undone]

WHAT? It's 63 degrees in late December?? O_O

Oh no; flooded basement. Haven't you guys dealt with that a bunch this year already? :( What a bummer. Glad you had a mostly good holiday.

I grew up with nothing but real Christmas trees, believing the artificial ones were horribly inferior, but the price of Christmas trees just went up and up, and the ecological thing about cutting down all those trees just to decorate for a couple of weeks and chuck out really bothered me after a while, so when we inherited a neighbor's artificial tree, I went along with it begrudgingly. Now I'm over the OMG NO! sort of mentality about it, and we put the artificial one up every year. You get used to it. :/

[jrittenhouse]

The damage was minor. We had a mess to deal with...