Our Baby Brother's First Christmas Tree - Mama Lai Style

Mama Lai was never instilled with much holiday spirit.  Growing up, I don't have any clear memories of us doing anything "traditional" for Thanksgiving or Christmas unless another family invited us over for the holidays.  One year, when our baby brother turned five, he was learning about Christmas about school and conveyed to Mama Lai that he would be really excited to decorate a Christmas tree.

"Christmas tree??  We have Christmas tree!  I will get you a Christmas tree."

Duckie and I were both bewildered.  It was very unlike Mama Lai to get excited about a holiday, much less agree to decorate a tree.  She disappeared into the garage and minutes later came in with a box.  No one quite knew what was going on so we gathered around her like it was Christmas morning.  She reached into the box and pulled out a 3 foot plastic Christmas tree that we haven't used since before my brother was born.

"Look!  I didn't even take the ornaments off of it so we don't have to do any work." 

Poor baby brother didn't get to decorate his Christmas tree, but it was the first year in a long time that we even had one.  Happy Holidays!