Christmas tree!

Update: I accidentally left some of the photos below on "FAMILY VIEWING" only when I first posted this Blathering. I've since changed the viewing permission on these photos, so they should show up properly now. Apologies for the inconvenience!

(Above: Jeff lifts me up so I can put the angel on our Christmas tree. our first Christmas tree in our new house!!!)

As I've mentioned before, our old place in the condo building didn't allow live Christmas trees, and one of my "first house ownership" fantasies has always been to be able to have a tree at Christmas.

We went with my sister's family to a tree place near Orangeville to look for our trees, an annual tradition for them; we help them decorate their tree afterward. The tree place is also quite near my mom-in-law's house, so we dropped by to get a small box of decorations that she's been storing for us for quite a few years, from when we were renting out in the country.

This is one of my favourites:



Choosing our trees was a serious process including much wandering and comparing and careful analysis of percentage dead branches vs optimal shape and height, etc. Jeff and Sara took a break from the stress to do face plants in the snow:



My family had dinner at my place and then helped decorate our tree; Jeff and I had also dropped by Home Hardware to pick up some garlands and coloured balls.

Sara and Annie brought over homemade decorations for us:



I showed my family the lovely homemade decoration that Heather Borean gave me at the housefilk:



And my father tried out my harp:



After everyone had left for the evening, I went back to the living room and sat on the couch for a while with the lights off, watching the coloured lights in our marvellously decorated Christmas tree, snow still falling in the darkness outside. Jeff came down to sit with me for a while and we both agreed: it had been a truly wonderful day.

Other news:

I've been revamping the Urban Tapestry Web site. Jodi has updated the DNS pointers, but it will probably take a few days for the urbantapestry.org domain to point to the new site. Feel free to drop by for a look!

Here's the new site.

I'm still in the process of updating the info and layout; thanks for your patience.

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