Friday, November 17, 2006

How early is too early for a Christmas tree??

I'm a Christmas freak. I grew up with magic Christmas and long before I had kids I kept trying to keep the magic alive. When I was a singleton in Stockholm, I hated that my small apartment could not fit a real Christmas tree.

Now I live in the right place for Christmas! It's only November, but Christmas sure is on it's way here! Yeah!

And the Christmas trees you can get here... oaho... they all look like something out of a Disney movie (can they have be on steroids to look so perfect??). Nothing compared to the tiny, thin Swedish ones (unless you pay a fortune and get a "silvergran"). You Swedes know what I'm talking about...

Now I just have to wait until Thanksgiving is over, before I can get into full Christmas gear. Turn on the Christmas music, heat up the "glögg" and enjoy the cozy light form the "adventsstjärnorna" (more about those essential things later on)...

How early is too early to get a Christmas tree?

4 comments:

Annika said...

You and are so alike it is SCARY!!! I am THE X-mas FREAK!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the season. I swear, I will put up the lights outside the day after t-giving. And yes, the x-mas trees here are lovely, och dem BARRAR ju för tusan INTE. Kan du inte komma över på glögg??? :-))))
We have a radio station here WASH 97,1. Now they have started playing their 24/7 Christmas music. Guess who's tuned in :-)

JaCal said...

Almost spooky... ;-)

The boxes with the lights are ready, the ladder in place, and next Sunday they're going UP! No matter what "Do we really have to every year"-husband says.

Anonymous said...

The unspoken rule in America so far as putting up a tree goes like this: You are allowed to put up a tree just after the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on television. This assumes, of course, that you can manage the care of a natural tree for so long before Christmas with proper watering. But who wants to deal with that? That's why it's better to get an unnatural but still nice looking Christmas tree. Besides, we have this global warming thing going on and we need the trees.

JaCal said...

I like to put up my tree early, that way I can enjoy it longer. But if your putting it up at the end of November (American tradition) and saving it until Tjugondedag Knut in January (Swedish tradition) you really need a "unnatural" tree... I don't know what's better for the environment, plastic trees or natural ones.