Tradition
Now that the holidays are over, it is time for me to take the Christmas tree down. Ordinarily, it would already have been taken down before now in my household, but sometimes life gets in the way of the plans we make. We kept the tree up longer in hopes we would still get together with my brother and his family in a delayed holiday celebration. In addition to the hassle of dealing with the unpredictable weather, it is difficult to try and schedule a time for us to be together because of so many conflicting schedules with work and school and college. After a second ice storm canceled a second attempt for such a trip, we have decided to just mail the Christmas presents from under the tree to each other and look forward to a get-together in the spring. So the tree will come down today and a trip to the post office is in order, but as is tradition, we will do it all again next year, of course. Well, we will try, anyway, unless life gets in the way. As a bit of a post script to my bl...