Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

This morning we woke up to this.

Anna was very excited and had to go outside before she even had breakfast. As you can see behind Anna, there wasn't any snow on the roads (or sidewalks). So not enough for sledding.


Anna wanted to walk down to the pond to see if it was frozen. We walked down, but it was not frozen yet.

We continued our walk through the field which was also not frozen yet. Hence, it was squishy mud. We saw a hawk, falcon or eagle. We couldn't get close enough to determine. It was a good thing we enjoyed our morning walk as the snow was pretty much melted by the afternoon.


I missed another day on the advent calendar. What's a girl to do? Today we went to get our Christmas tree. What is the most environmentally friendly Christmas tree? Probably not having any. But it is a tradition so....

There are arguments that an artificial tree is best because it will last for years and you are not cutting any live trees down. That may be but it will eventually get thrown away and who knows how long it will take to decompose! And it just doesn't have that lovely pine smell.

There are arguments that cut Christmas trees take a lot of resources to grow (i.e. land and water). I think that the tree farms are o.k. because they are growing trees and those trees help clean the air as they grow. It is sad that they have to be cut down, but more will be planted. They smell lovely and our city recycles the trees after Christmas to use as mulch. Then, you don't have to store anything.

I don't really like the idea of going into the forest and cutting down a tree (which they sell permits to do here). I would rather leave the wild in its natural state. Plus, my husband told me a story where someone he works with went and cut a tree down. When they went back in the summer, they realized the snow was deep and they really didn't cut the whole thing down. There was still tree on the bottom.

One year when we were in our first house, we got a live tree. The kind you plant in your yard afterward in the spring. The only problem with that is that you have to keep them outside and can only have it in the house for a few days otherwise the tree comes out of dormancy and you would have to keep it in the house until the spring when it would be warm enough outside to plant. We kept ours on the porch and could see it from inside through the window. We did plant it in the yard and I think it is still there. Last time we went by, it looked pretty big.