Today is day 10 of 25 Days of Christmas Activities to Do with Your Family. And, today we’re talking about going to get the Christmas tree. Not the cut Christmas tree from the big box hardware store and not even the cut Christmas tree from the farm market. Your own cut Christmas tree. The one where you and your family, trek out into a field of trees with a hand saw and cut it down yourselves. Well, in our family, Daddy cuts it while the rest of us watch!
Childhood Memories: Cut the Christmas Tree
Cutting the Christmas Tree is one of my cherished childhood memories. I can remember doing it when I was a little kid. It’s possible that some of these memories are influenced by photographs, but I definitely remember a few of those road trips to cut the Christmas tree.
When I was a kid, we would drive about 45 minutes from the city into the country to cut our own Christmas tree.
It was a big family event. My grandparents, my aunts and uncles, close family friends. The day would conclude with a visit to my grandmother’s cousin and/or my grandmother’s lifelong best friend. It was always such a joyous day. Yes, it was cold and snowy, but what is more fun than children in a forest of evergreens looking for the perfect cut Christmas Tree?
Our Cut Christmas Tree
Now that I have a family of my own and we live in the country, the tree farm is literally right across the street. In the days right after Thanksgiving, we actually watch as the family who owns the farm goes out to get the pre-cut trees. In fact, I am writing this a couple days before Thanksgiving and they just brought the first tractor load of cut Christmas trees in.
Most years we still like to cut our own. It is something that the kids look forward to. There is just something about that trek across the field to find just the right tree. We generally try to go around the second weekend of December. For many, this might seem late, but cut Christmas trees just don’t have the staying power of the artificial ones. That’s part of the charm–the smell of the freshly cut and the needles dropping everywhere by January 1st!
25 Days of Christmas Activities
So, if you’ve never cut your own Christmas tree, this year might just be the year to head out and Cut Christmas Trees (assuming that you live in climate that lends itself to doing that!). This is a really great tradition to start with your family and one that your kids will remember for years to come. I hope that you will give it a try this December.
Be sure to stop back tomorrow and for the next 15 days to find other great traditions to share with your family during the 25 Days of Christmas Activities. And don’t forget to check out the first nine days too.
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