Christmas time in my home #1

“Fate solo l’albero o anche il presepe?”
Do you just put up the Christmas tree or you do the Nativity scene too?.

I’ve been asked this question many times. I always answered “Both”.

In the last years I started answering “The second at home, the tree stays on the balcony”… I do love giving this answer for two reasons:

1) I want to slightly underline the fact that in my house the Nativity set is the most important thing to “create” for Christmas time… at least, I think that at home I should be free to have my ideas…

2) Enjoy the first smile/laugh that is followed by: “What? Are you serious?”, and then enjoy the expression on people’s face when they understand that I’m 100% serious  and the tree stays really on the balcony. If you don’t believe me, you simply have to or… just use a little of imagination…

I don’t remember the precise year we started, surely Christmas  2004… that’s what a picture data tell… that’s the proof-picture:

In 2005 I took this this picture:

(Here you are supposed to use your imagination to realize that tree is outside…)

Someone defined this a “no-picture”. I’ll never understand what he meant with the definition “no picture”.

I love to take no(serious)-picture, so here you are the Xmas-2008 version:

The tree decorated this year is being our “Christmas Tree” for the 3rd time.  That’s an event!

Usually trees didn’t survive for more than a Christmas season…

The first time we started decorating the tree outside it probably helped the tree to survive for a second Christmas season… but it didn’t happen often…

And since we give food to sparrows the Christmas tree survives for longer and in a better way. We’ve notice this fact the last year. My theory was that the tree was “happier” to be surrounded by birds

that jump all around it and stay often on its branches and who “manure” it. My family and my boyfriend considered it a “crazy theory”… but it’s not important, I just wanted to make them smile with such a theory and I’ve got what I wanted

Now I, seriously, start thinking that birds probably eat parasites that come on the tree… 3 Christmas season is an extraordinary thing 

What about the Nativity set?

No hurry, the 24th is tomorrow