Use Your Real Christmas Tree After Christmas
Hildegard von Bingen, says “The Pine tree is more warm than cold and contains many energies and powers. The tree is the symbol of strength.” Over the last couple years, I have struggled to buy a real tree. I kept thinking, why am I doing this? What does this symbolize? What I'd come up with that made this OK for me was: its for the kids, well, in my case, the kid. Last year, our son was gone for the holiday, so the choice was easy: No kid, no tree. I bought a cute glittery turquoise tree at Target and called it a Christmas day. But the year before that and this year, we decided to get a real tree. This year, it was a last minute decision. I thought we'd go to Home Depot and find an artificial tree, but when we got there, the ones we wanted were either too expensive or sold out. We settled on a Douglas Fir. It was 39 dollars and 6 ft. tall, which was more than I was going to get in a artificial tree. Perfect. And the one thing that I really wanted that I was going to