Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

On Saturday we visited our favorite tree farm and picked out a tree. We didn’t have much of a choice but I think it will be just beautiful. We have a slightly smaller tree this year, around 9′ tall while last year we had a 14′ tree. The guys adjust the stand:

Not everyone is happy about having to do this chore holiday tradition:

But I leave the room when the lights are put on the tree. We have found that it works best that way, DH just puts them on –

Finally it is time to add water to the tree base:

My favorite ornament. Through Survivor I placed ornament on after ornament — every year I have purchased a few ornaments, and now there are soooooo many. The tree is up, but really there’s many more ornaments on there than can be seen. WHEW!!!

Maybe later in the week the boys and I will string popcorn to finish it up.  And we have to find our tree skirt and angel.  The tree skirt is really precious.  When the boys were 4yo and newborn we placed their hands into fabric paint and then onto the tree skirt.  We did this year after year until the skirt was full.  What a treasure!

Merry Christmas!