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I am thirty-three years, eleven months and three weeks old, I have been married for five and a half years, I have three and a bump children, I have owned one flat and a half of two houses, I have graduate and post-graduate qualifications and I make a particularly splendid banana cake, but this is the first time I've ever had my own Christmas tree.
I am very excited.
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Wow that made me giggle. Can have a slice of the banana cake? Yum. I hope you really enjoy your tree, great sparkle! Happy Christmas.
ReplyDeleteBless your cotton socks...it's a beautiful tree as well. Congrats!
ReplyDelete:) Karin
Oh that is perfect! Nothing tops the first tree . . . makes you feel all grown up ;-)!
ReplyDeleteAnd those ornaments are beautiful!
Cool photo - enjoy your first tree! I remember the excitement when we had our first tree actually, and buying all those tacky baubles as the cheap ones were all we could afford. 35 years on and we still have some of those, all with happy memories of Christmases gone.
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful first tree! Happy Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful picture, beautiful tree!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting. I remember decorating my very first own one. Mich x
ReplyDeletewow : happy first treemas!
ReplyDeleteCool pictures--the baubles look like planets in a Christmas tree solar system...
ReplyDeleteoh, I'm so happy for you that you finally have a tree :)
ReplyDeletegreat photo too :)
Is that what the B stands for? Plan Banana cake?
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the tree!!
Awww, brilliant, enjoy the tree, it looks great:) jen
ReplyDeleteOooh enjoy your tree! I'm impressed you managed to get it up with all that snow.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great thing! What did you have before?
ReplyDeleteCool photo and lovely post!
ReplyDeleteI have had my own X-mas tree since I was six:-)
Love your baubles! I get excited putting my tree up every year too and I am a bit older than you lol!
ReplyDeleteLovely example of all things sparkly :)
Thank you all for lovely comments although I'm a little concerned that I've given the impression to lots of you that Christmas up until now has been all bare branches and huddled round the light of a match.... It's not that, it's just that up until this year we've always been away for the whole thing at one or other set of grandparents and with the girls so little and not that interested it never really seemed worth it, especially with our tiny living room in our old house. We did always have twinkly lights and baubles though so I'm not Scroogette I promise!
ReplyDeleteStill the tree is very exciting!
And as for the banana cake Mrs Alexander and Iota, while it was particularly fine (Mary Berry recipe, with tweaks because I didn't have the ingredients), the real reason I mentioned it was because I happened to be eating the last slice as I wrote the post; tonight it'd be Lidl chocolate covered lebkuchen. Equally delicious, but not as personally impressive...
Oh, and the ornaments thing is interesting isn't it? In my head you have to buy expensive baubles because cheap ones are rubbish and break, but those were £2.99 for 12 from the local supermarket, and seem to be splendid. Maybe bauble technology has moved on since I was a child.
And Lorna, we've still got it, but somehow now the roads are clear life seems a bit more normal!
Special thanks for the simile to to ~mama - I used that one earlier on today when L was asking about where the sun had gone: "well, the earth is a bit like a Christmas tree bauble..." Couldn't have done it without you!
ps Mummy Mishaps a big thank you to you too for following! I love new followers!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant photo and YAY to the first tree.
ReplyDeleteThank you Manic Mummy!
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