Oh, Christmas Tree (PB)

Christmas is a time of great joy and family. One of the most significant items found in every Christmas-home is the Christmas tree. How can such a little tree be so important during a season filled with so many other things?

Well first, the Christmas tree in your house is unique to you and your family traditions. For example, my Christmas tree is covered in ornaments that represent our family. A Raiders bulb for my father. A hand-stitched ornament made by my mother.  A babies first Christmas picture-ornament for myself. A Bone ornament for our dog, Chloe. And many, many more. Christmas trees are the centerpiece of the season because they create a picturesque image of your family.

In my house, my mom and I are Christmas-impassioned (My father calls in obsessed, but oh well), so we put up our tree on the day before thanksgiving, and then  we take it down sometime near the end of January. Why would we want a large, plastic tree in our living room window for over two months? Well, before I answer this question, let me ask you this; have you ever just sat and admired your Christmas tree? It might sounds strange, but you’ll be surprised by how happy looking at a tree clad in lights and ornaments can make you.

Therefore my mom and I have made the executive decision to keep the tree up for as long as possible, because looking at the all of the memories of past Christmas's and ornaments that represent family make us happy. I mean, how can you not be filled with the joy when you're looking at an ornament that your 4-year-old cousin made just for you? How can you not be a little sappy when you see your reflection in a glass ornament that once hung in your great-grandmother house?

So, for all those Christmas fanatics reading this, there is a lot of DIY all-year Christmas trees that you might be intrested in investing in (our family is going to be getting one soon!). For the rest of you, who think that Christmas time should be incased into a single week, or that a Christmas tree is just a piece of plastic or a messy, dying plant, I challenge you to think back to a Christmas-past, or to look at pictures from a Christmas when you were little, and see how important that shiny, sparkly tree is in the backround.