What's Atop Your Christmas Tree?

What's Atop Your Christmas Tree?

  • an Angel

    Votes: 5 17.2%
  • a Bow (or Ribbon)

    Votes: 3 10.3%
  • a Glass Finial

    Votes: 3 10.3%
  • a Hat

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Santa!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • a Snowman

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • a Star

    Votes: 7 24.1%
  • Something else (and I'll prove it! See my photo.)

    Votes: 3 10.3%
  • Nothing, my tree is untopped.

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • We don't have a Christmas tree.

    Votes: 7 24.1%


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This handblown glass star that I had made for my spouse about thirty years ago:

Xmas Star.jpg
 




I've been asking for the Death Star for years!

Tree top is bare at the moment. We follow the Ecclesiastical Reformed People's Front protocol: I locate box in the basement and celery it upstairs; it sits in the middle of the living room for the prescribed 3 to 5 days while I recover from carrying it up the stairs; I then assemble the tree note the lights that don’t work (same ones as last year) consider repairing them, and then just add 200 more lights to cover up the dark spots.

At this point the ceremonial changing of the guard occurs, I take my leave, and my wife is required to decorate the tree. This might take 3 or 4 days. It usually involves a lot of rummaging in the basement for another box of ornaments.

Then the moment of finality occurs, I go to my daughter’s room, grab one of her childhood stuffies and attach it to the top of the tree with a hair band. It’s a tense time trying to decide if it should be the pink monkey or the blue elephant.

The ceremony ends with the chorus of angels singing…or maybe that’s the Bare Naked Ladies Xmas Album?
 




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