I have to say my grinchy part about Christmas... I don't like it. It's over wrapped, over commercialized, over done! However, since the kids, my heart has grown 3 sizes and now I enjoy it enough that I could carve the roast beast. Anyway... this year, I think I most enjoyed having a big tree with lots of lights and having the house decorated. David really likes that part too. 

We left the tree up way longer than we should have considering the needles falling off with any breeze of air. ( And I watched MythBusters... It's highly unlikely that a tree will catch your house on fire these days even if you leave it on all night with a ton of lights.) After we took it down and threw it on the curb, which feels really wrong, David asked me every morning for 3 days...

"Mommy, where'd our Christmas tree go?"

And I had to say " Christmas is over sweetie, we put the tree outside for the tractor to pick up."

Then he'd say " Mommy, that Christmas tree... sad, sad sad."

We're getting a fake tree next year.