Christmas Trees

Here is our tree, our first flocked tree, It’s almost too perfect, but I guess for $103.00 it better be perfection. I almost like our scrawny tree we put up in the cabin and it didn’t cost us a penny, cut it from our own property. The kids and I decorated it with our woodland ornaments, handmade wooden bears, elk ice skating, mountain birds.

We have three artificial Christmas trees displayed at work, one for each wing. My patients on the south wing kept on knocking the tree over. Alzheimer disease interferes with a person preception of things and my patients just love walking towards the lights and knocking the tree to the ground. Ellen, my patient with early onset dementia, had the string of lights tailing behind her still flashing and hooked up to power. We had to take the lights off the tree. I’m constantly going around trying to make the tree pretty and putting it back together again but it is a losing game for me since my patients are very tactile and like to claim the ornaments as there own. I have been playing my old school Christmas cd’s and I do mean old school, Frank, Bing, Louie, Dean, these boys really know how to belt out the tunes. After listening to these guys all day long at work, it just doesn’t do any justice to listen to contemporary Christmas music—hands down Bing beats out Kenny G. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era. The young caregivers try to hide my cd’s and try to slip in ArrowSmith–ya right like I’m going to let that happen. I do like Arrowsmith but I have the utmost respect for my patients.

Ok here is a picture of the tree for the cabin, not much to look at but it is our tree nevertheless. It will stay fresh up until March-our cabin is like an ice box just waiting for us to come and vist and bring it warmth and love. Right now it is snowing!!! I’m not there to look out of the window and play out side and stick my tongue out and catch the velvety flakes. I’m so lonesome for our cabin.

Guess what?

I bought my snowboard

my account is over drawn

but it is an awesome snowboard

It even has a special name

the Snow board of death

an all black snowboard with beautiful etching.

It’s for an advance snowboarder–

I think BIG sometimes.

I will write more later about my new best friend.