Today we went out and paid a ridiculous price for a Christmas tree - $120!!!! I have always gotten one from the bush, so this idea of paying that much for a tree is just outrageous! But... not much choice in the big city... unless we go for a fake tree but... no fun there!
I had this 9 ft tree stuffed in my 4-runner and wow... it smelled like Christmas in there. It's a balsam tree, the tree we usually got when I was growing up, and so, for me, the smell of balsam is the smell of Christmas. It's amazing how scents and smells can bring us right back to an experience... the smell of a fir tree and a crackling fire... with a few mandarin oranges... totally Christmas!
Having had artifiical trees for the last 4 years, I am looking forward to the smell of a real tree... It speaks more clearly of the whole Christmas atmosphere... Now, if I baked some cookies as well, that would complete the whole thing!!! Dare I give it a whirl??? I could bake the easiest ones... spritzgeback... and use the Christmas moulds... Maybe... we'll see how it goes!!! It does create a whole Christmas sense... I haven't baked cookies since I left my mother's house so... perhaps it is time to step out and enter the tradition!!!
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