Treeeeeeeeee Mama

The tree is up. This is big news around these parts. Phin’s whole world is rocked. He thought trees were an outside thing that stood for fresh air and freedom, oh sweet freedom. Now he sees that his all-powerful Mom can even wrestle one of those beasts inside when it gets too cold out.  That’s right Phin, don’t mess.

We picked it up from a one man tree lot. It’s organic. For real, that’s how this young entreepreneur pitched it. Like how I did that with that extra e there? No? Stop it. It’s clever.

Organic with organic bugs.

I was like, chill tree guy. I don’t care if those spiders are made of man engineered corn and high fructose corn syrup. You just happen to have the best tree in the city. In the world.

Then tree guy gave us a stand while I tried to avoid making eye contact with that guy who made me pee under my desk that one time. Yeah he just happened to be the only other person at the lot. On a Monday. At two. What the f?

He didn’t spoil our good time though. Jared tried to haggle and because I love me a small business I totally ruined his game. This did not please him. But he took a swig of hot cocoa out of Phin’s sippy cup (yeah, you read that right. Shame.) and put on a happy face while it was strapped to the car. Sadly we came in second place in the tree to car ratio contest. Only disappointment of the afternoon.

Phin’s reaction is truly the cutest thing in the world. That is no exaggeration my friends. He is in awe. I plug it in before I pull him out of his crib in the morning so we can feel all homey and cozy before we go face the world for the day. We step out in the living room and he whispers “Treeeeeee. Mama. Treeeee.” Then we both just stand there and stare at the beautiful thing in silence. Pretty much the best five minutes of my day.

So far all the ornaments have survived. I know, it’s early. Glass has been moved up three feet and shatterproof decor hangs out near the bottom. We’ve pretty much welcomed this tree as a temporary member of the family. We’re in love.