Sometimes the silliest Christmas decorations make the most lasting impressions. Similar to this wooden mouse-house, the LED Christmas tree you see in the featured photo is about as ridiculous as one can get the it comes to holiday decorations. Procured on some holiday stroll in Boston years ago with Kira, it’s all plastic and snow-made-out-of-glitter (the worst snow of all). I normally wouldn’t have entertained any wisp of a notion of bringing it home, but for some reason its colors and charm spoke to me in that magical TJ Maxx in which we inevitably found ourselves. There was something so sad and tragic about it, I felt its pull like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
It took a single battery to operate its LED magnificence, and nestled on a shelf that houses a lime-green Crate and Barrel vase, it somehow worked, lending a modern twist to the holiday festivities at hand. Kira and I both laughed at it, but since then it has come out to illuminate its little corner for several years – a new and unlikely tradition that signals how silly the season can be, but also how magical if you start to believe. I’m not quite there, but this is the time for sentiment, so I’m feeling it out.
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