Tabletop Christmas Tree

When I was a child, my parents always had a real evergreen or pine tree in the living room. They bought it just a day or two before Christmas. They decorated it on Christmas Eve after my younger brother and I went to sleep. Decorations included an angel on top, glass balls, colored lights, and tinsel. In later years, Mother added some hand sewn animal shaped decorations she made.

When I married and had two sons we always had a real tree in our living room, too. In those days I was a stay at home mom with time to decorate my home for holidays and time afterward to pack it all up til the next year. The tree went up a week before Christmas and anybody who wanted could help trim. It stayed up into the new year until the needles started to drop.

My life and most traditions took a radical change when I was divorced. Although I had custody of the Christmas tree ornaments, they were lost in a subsequent move out of state. It really made me sad to loose Mother's handmade decorations.

Since then, I have worked and not had time for extensive holiday decorating. But, there has always been a Christmas tree where ever I have lived. First they were full size artificial trees that could be folded up and re-used. For the past 15 years they have been table top trees. This Thomas Kinkade Christmas tree will be the perfect table top tree for me. It even has a miniature train that moves around the base of the tree and Santa Claus and raindeer flying above while it plays music.