Suspended Christmas
For a while there was some hubbub in the house as to the critical question of the season: Where are we gonna put the tree?! Last year this wasn't a problem. But last year this room didn't exist and the Christmas tree was right here . Where I'm sitting, right now, on my bed, writing this blog post. Yeah. SO not going to work this year. My sister-in-law's family (hence forth dubbed the S family for simplicity's sake) has a HUGE Christmas tree. I suppose that when the average member of their family is over 6-feet-tall an 8-or-9-or-10-foot Christmas tree looks proportionate. But now that Husband and I have moved in, there's no floor space for it. We ended up using our little 5-foot tree. It stands in the entryway and looks so vulnerable petite in this household of giants. But for a while, we contemplated a far more interesting solution: Take the 8-or-9-or-10 foot tree and hang it from the ceiling. Yup. The idea was ...