Imagine, if you please, that statement coming from a five year old with a deep voice. My son has insisted since early November that it was time for Christmas and we needed to get a tree. Going into any stores after Halloween, shoot, before Halloween ruins it for kids because of all the commercialism. I told him, no tree until after Thanksgiving. Period.
So, naturally after attending the tree lighting downtown, he turns to me and says, “Mommy, we gotta get a tree. It’s Christmas.” While I know the holidays have become a lot more impersonal and focused around buying and spending, I have worked hard to not have my kids forget the reason for the season. Having traditions not focused around gimme, gimme, gimme makes for well-rounded little people. In addition to going downtown for the treelighting, we also stopped to see the train display. This year was the first one where we actually made it in the building and were able to see the trains up close.
This is also the start of the carriage rides. We tried to do that last year, but it cost entirely too much to ride behind a smelly horse!
It was a nice evening and the weather was just about right for a November evening. So, like my little man said, it is Christmas time and I guess we had better get that tree or I will never hear the end of it.
