Dec. 8th

Today we got our Christmas tree.  I love everything about having a Christmas tree: the lights, the ornaments, the smell (okay maybe not the needles all over the place).  I know that it is not really a Christ centered thing.  People from our church set up a big manger scene instead.  Which I am sure is beautiful and meaningful and I might want to start that tradition some day.  But I am not quite ready to give up the tree for the manger scene.  Writing that out makes me think I might have my priorities in the wrong place.  And yet I still love our tree.  Because how ever the tradition of the Christmas tree started, it means Christmas and family and love to me.  And I guess that is good enough for now.
Someday, maybe we will have both.