07 Jan, 2010
A small and temporary forest [now with photo]
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Easy ways to make kids happy
I was walking home on my way from a community association meeting last night when I realized that many of my neighbors had already put their Christmas trees out by the curb.
I suddenly remembered my idea from last year. It was time.
I got the car, drove around the block, and slowwwwly pulled up beside one of those curbside trees. Here’s where I admit I felt a little sneaky and scared. Good lord, is this even legal? I was worried that someone would see me and have a fit. I was practically rehearsing what I was going to say, and debating whether this was going to make me the neighborhood The Crazy Christmas Tree Lady.
With a hoist and a shove I stuffed the tree into the trunk, needles clicking and falling like rain from the sky, and drove the thing home … marginally worried that it was going to fall out of the car and I’d have no choice but to shove it back in again, risking discovery by all and sundry. When I got it home I pulled it from the trunk (cue second massive needle drop) and stuck the thing into the snow on our front lawn.
Then I decided that the car was too loud, this was an exercise better undertaken in the quiet of the night, by just me, walking.
And so I walked to three other homes, picked up three other trees, dragged each one home, and stuck them all into the snow. Oh my, was it a lot of work. What I really needed was a pickup truck.
I am sore. Who needs the gym when you can drag trees around your neighborhood?
This morning the girls woke up to see a small forest of five new evergreens on our lawn. They really liked it, especially Sarah. She was the first one to notice.
“MAMMA, there are TREES on our LAWN!!”
I know five trees doesn’t exactly make a forest (that was my goal, but that’s all I had the energy to do!), but it’s easy to imagine it could be.
[ETA: so you get the idea, right?] :)
