Family Tree Frog

Thomas MacEntee from Geneabloggers writes: What are your memories of your family putting up the Christmas tree? Many of us come from different traditions: some people won’t put up their tree until after Thanksgiving or even on Christmas Eve? Some like live trees and actually go out into the woods to cut their own while others prefer the convenience of an artificial tree. Write about anything related to Christmas trees and your memories of Christmases past. When I was a child, we would buy our Christmas trees from the Scouts Association.  My mother would always insist on the tallest fattest tree my father could find.  Sometimes this meant getting two trees and tying them together.  The tree would be tied to the roof of the car and then, when we got home,  there would be the great exercise of potting it and making sure it would stay upright. Sometimes it would be too big and my father would have to cut some off the bottom. We had three cats when I was ...