Christmas Preparation

Around the last week of November I start counting down the days until Christmas every year. Christmas is my most favorite holiday out of them all. Besides going shopping, and getting a tree, there are many things my family does traditionally to get ready for the special day of Christ’s birthday.
The day after Thanksgiving my mother, and my two sisters and I go pick out our tree from a tree farm called Whomhoff Christmas Trees. Last year we picked out the biggest tree we have ever had. This year it is a little smaller, due to their prices going up. When we get home from getting our tree, we put on Christmas music, and start our decorating. First my mom and I go up into the attic to get all of our 5 boxes of Christmas decorations, and bring them down to start unloading them. We have a favorite decoration that has been in our family for generations, it’s a manger scene that was knitted by my great grandmother, and has been passed on down to my mother. She eventually wi...