Every year since the Punkinhead turned 2 (longer ago than I care to admit) we have spent one day of the Thanksgiving holiday (decidedly NOT black Friday) at the local garden centers marvelling at their trees. Way back then, the trees were decorated in themes and always over-the-top stuff. Once there was a firefighter tree with dalmation, fire hat, and fire truck ornaments, a "hose" garland, and a real fire hat for a tree topper. The Caribbean mermaid tree is a perennial favorite with fishes and sea creatures in addition to the mer-people all in purples, teals, and blues. Mostly the trees are decorated within an inch of their (artificial) lives with a selection of ornaments and other doodads, much of which the average person would never imagine putting on a tree.
If the garden centers are to be believed, this year's hot trend is woodsy-themed trees with many owls. It was a "hot trend" last year too, so maybe they just have ornaments to unload. Also noted: LOTS of glitter/sparkle ornaments. Maybe they have pre-teen girls designing the trees this year.
At any rate, part of the tradition holds that Punkinhead can choose any ONE ornament for the tree and when she moves away and has her own tree, she gets to take all her carefully selected annual ornaments. There's an automatic 20+ for the future Punkintree. There were a few years that I questioned this decision as we hung pastel merry-go-round horses and glittering reindeer from the branches of the tree, but on the whole she's done pretty well.
Now I look at the tree and think, "When Punkinhead moves out, we're going to have to get a BUNCH of ornaments. The tree will be bare!"
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