Oh Christmas Tree...

 Stella and Lucy getting ready to go to the North Pole on Wednesday!

Even though we are headed back to Minnesota for Christmas- I still wanted to put up a tree!
And as much as we would have loved to get a real Christmas tree, we decided that we should stick with our old artificial one to minimize the watering and needle-cleanup etc.

So last week, we empty out our entire closet to get down into the basement (which is what we have to do any time we need to get down there to get/do anything: storage, check the water heater, change the furnace filter, and oh, I don't know, scoop up water?). Anyway... we go down to retrieve the Christmas stuff and we find everything; everything but the top of the 3-piece tree. For the last several years we have used the artificial tree, but we only use the middle and top portion- since the bottom portion is too big for the typical Baltimore row home. We did have leaking down there this year, so we moved things around a bit; we looked and we looked (and the basement is not that big) with no luck. So we tried other spots in the house in which it may have migrated... no luck.

We did not find the top of the tree. However, I did find my mini Christmas tree that I bought in 6th grade at Walgreens. So... utilizing some wishful thinking and tinkering (along with duct tape and some bamboo skewers)- I attached the mini tree to the top of the middle portion... and then we decorated! Needless to say, it does not look great, but it does keep us laughing!