O Christmas Tree!

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peach and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. - Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is in full effect in Boston with trees decorated in the Boston Garden and lights lining many of the iron fences in front of the brownstones. At our apartment, the tree is up and the gifts are wrapped! Garrett was a Christmas Sherpa and carried a 6 foot tree on his back about half a mile to our living room.

One of my favorite memories growing up was getting a new ornament from my mom each year. It was so fun putting them up and remembering the years by the ornaments - the year I was born, high school graduation, etc. Garrett's family has a similar tradition of annual ornaments and we will see those when we head over to Seattle at the end of the week. Mine are all shoe ornaments - I miss those beauties!

Garrett and Baxter in front of our tree!

We always carve out a little time for a "just us" Christmas. This year it will be on Thursday night. We are planning to leave work right at 5pm (an early night for us these days) in order to get home and enjoy a little holiday celebration. Details and photos to come later!