NOw see, that made me think of my own childhood memories of xmas... going out into the snowy woods to find a tree, and decorating it, and the anticiapation of THE DAY winding higher and higher... cookies and friends over and our stockings hanging up and the same lovely candles and little funny elves and plastic garland every year...
*sigh*
Lovely times.

And you know...I hope you can sometime come back around to that, because the memories are just as sweet when you make them as an adult.
*hugs*