Christmas Trees

We got one!!!! :-D

D got me a christmas tree yesterday! He even surprised me with it. I didn't think we were gonna get one and I was feeling a bit homesick for all that. My mom and I would put our tree up (I'd beg for it after thanksgiving, but she'd always wait 'til the first weekend in December) and either that night she'd put the lights on and we'd decorate it or else I'd put the lights on the next day and we'd all decorate it that night. I'm not much for forced family fun, but this wasn't ever "forced". Christmas time seemed to be the one time of the year that the whole family got along fairly well.

So anyway, yesterday we went out to window shop until a client was done with his meeting so we could collect on an invoice. We went to Big Lots first and then to this pottery place. It's called "something Pottery", but they have everything from clothes, to dishware, to furniture. D had been over looking at the artificial trees, but I didn't think anything of it.

Later, after collecting on the invoice we went back to the store. I wasn't sure what we were doing, but I didn't ask. We went in and back over by the trees and he asked me which one I liked better. :-D I swear I almost cried I was so freakin' happy.

We went back home after that and while D tried to nap, I cleaned the livingroom and set up the tree. It's pre lit so we didn't have to mess with any silly strings of lights. We left after I'd gotten it all set and went back to the pottery place to see about decorations. Before we went in, D handed me a $100 and told me that was for whatever decorations I wanted and whatever presents I wanted to buy for family. Oh. My! I tried to say it was okay and that I didn't NEED to buy gifts, but he ordered me to take it and buy presents. How sweet is that? :-)

I found one thing for my mom there, but they didn't have much of what I was looking for in the way of decorations. So, we went back to Big Lots where I found something else for my mom, 1 thing for my brother, and then I got garland, colored ball ornaments (that turned out not to have hooks so we're saving them for next year), and D picked up a couple packages of blue candy canes for the tree.

I couldn't help it but I was practically hopping through the aisles looking for things for the tree and then skipping around the house when we got back to decorate.

Even now, I can't stop smiling about it when I remember I have a christmas tree downstairs. :-) I mean, how many women dream of their man (or future man) surprising them with exactly what they want? I have that and I feel like the luckiest person in the world right now.

Is it sad that this is all over a christmas tree? Personally, I don't think the subject matters, it's the fact that, even though I was expecting to not have a tree this year (and pretty accepting of that fact)...he gave me one. :-) I learned a little later yesterday that it's the first time in 10 years D has had a tree.

Isn't he fabulous?!?! :-D