Alternate Title:  "How to purposefully decorate your Christmas Tree".

subtitle:  Christmas-time at our House: part 2

This is the 2nd installment in my Christmas-time at our House series.  We do holiday things differently around our house.  After all, it IS my house and I'm OK with being weird. 

The weekend of U.S. Thanksgiving, usually on Sunday afternoon, my family has always put up the Christmas tree.  Since we're all allergic to real trees, we could make this work with our lovely fake imitation Christmas tree.  (I don't guess you can do that with a REAL tree, eh?  Fire hazard and all...) 

What does a Christmas tree have to do with Christmas anyway?  Martha Zimmerman talks about the origin of the Christmas Tree in her book, Celebrating the Christian Year.  I won't go into detail about all the tree stuff.  It basically has very little to do with Christ's birth at all, but it has been very much a part of the Christmas tradition since Victorian times at least.