When Christmas Trees Attack

It was our first Christmas together as a couple and the both of us were getting into the holiday spirit. Your mother gave us a beautiful fake Christmas tree to use in our apartment. We could not wait to put up the tree and wrap the presents for the family to put under it. We dumped out the box of parts to the artificial tree and started putting it all together; only to find out that there was no tree stand included in the box. I quickly called my father who said there was an old metal tree stand in the pole barn we could use for our tree. Being young and dumb we thought it may work, not remembering that fake trees have a lot thinner “trunks” then those of real trees. We rushed over in the van and picked up the tree stand from the pole barn. When we got home we placed the bottom of the tree in the stand only to find out it did not fit! Ugg! By this time we started getting our thinking caps on. You had this crazy idea that we could fill the bottom of the tree stand with flat rocks from outside our apartment to hold the tree in the stand. Sounds like a great idea huh? Well it worked great! We put the whole tree together and it was standing a bit lop sided but it was ok. We were pretty proud of ourselves after struggling to get the rocks just perfect in the stand for the last two and a half hours. We got out the box of decorations I had and started making the tree pretty. That is when it happened. The tree just completely topped over. Your fix wasn’t going to work after all. We kept trying for hours on end but no matter what we did, that stupid tree was just too heavy for the real tree stand. The rocks were not going to hold it up straight for us and the tree was just going to keep falling over. You got very angry and decided to just give up till we could run out and get a fake tree stand at Mernards the next morning. We took apart the tree and we got to the last part by the rocks. You had duck tapped the trunk to the stand thinking it would help sturdy the trunk better and you went to pull the trunk out of the stand, when the trunk of the Christmas tree hit you square in the right eye! You let out this blood curling cry. I looked up to find blood everywhere on your face. I couldn’t even see your eye! We called my mother and your mother who both work in the medical field. My mother came over and looked at you and said that you had to go to the ER. Not having health insurance you were worried about going in, but after we could not get the nice gash above your eye to stop bleeding and a little begging from me, we decided it best to go the ER. Long story short you ended up getting stitches above your eye. You hate needles so much and are such a baby when it comes to that. You made me hold your hand as they injected you with numbing jell and stitched you up. They also gave you a tetanus shot because yours was way overdue. I swear the kids are less of chickens at that stuff then you! You cried like a two year old! Everyone got a kick out of the reason why we were there when we explained that a Christmas tree attacked you! You swore off that stupid tree for the next week, even though we bought a tree stand the next day. Finally we did get that stupid tree up, but you will always have a nice scar above your eye to remember our first Christmas together and the moment when the Christmas tree attacked!

Credit
Pink Reptile Designs: Under the Weather
Pink Reptile Designs and Studio Basic: Take Note
Just Jaimee: High Lighted
Heather Joyce: The Mary Kate