Day 39: We must have a tree

I loath fake snow and artificial cold climate trees so the kids challenge each year is to come up with a tree that we can all live with. We started the tradition when Noise was little and we didn't have money for Christmas, she painted a huge picture of a tree so we stuck it one the wall and sticky taped decorations to it. This year time has been short with Noise and I working and Chaos away, he was home for the day to Christmas shop and he tried all day to convince me to get a tree of some sort as we didn't have time to make one. Unfortunately we ran out of time and he went to his Fathers place for the night with no tree up at our house, but lucky me, a friend from Woolworths picked up one of their superbly tacky cardboard Christmas promotional trees on his way out the door and here it is! Yaaaay, this is the best tree ever, I feel the whole Christmas experience is complete now...I'm immersed so far into the whole commercialised retail driven crap that I even have a retail promotional tree. I love it!