Oh Christmas Tree

 We loved our Christmas Tree. I would find the kids sitting next to it all the time playing.  We haven't had any needles drop and I didn't need any allergy medicine after the first week so we were beginning to think that a freshly cut tree was the winner...

Until I noticed a few branches had this white fungus like stuff on it.  I didn't think anything of it because it wasn't that much.  Then a week later it looked like our tree was a flocked Christmas tree (the ones with fake snow on the branches) Colin thought Norah and I had taken cotton balls apart and thrown them all over the tree.  So after a quick google search it was most likely some type of bug.  I told Brent I would feel ok leaving the tree up but I wanted to take the ornaments off so if we saw any type of movement that tree would be gone.

That conversation was in the morning. I came home from Joel and Norahs Christmas parties at school and the tree was worse...and besides the white stuff everywhere it looked like some type of spider webby stuff was strung from branch to branch.

The tree went outside that night.

The kids weren't too upset. Norah in fact insisted that the tree go because she was afraid of bugs hatching in her sleep.  Brent gave us such a hard time but when it came time for him to take the tree outside he said it really was bad and he was afraid to touch it.

What?!?!?! There are bugs in our tree????

BUGS!!!!

YAY! The tree is leaving!

The tree is out on our front porch.  The lights are still on it. We thought maybe we could bring it back in but it looks worse so I think it will be out on the curb tomorrow.

Oh Christmas Tree
Oh Christmas Tree
How lovely are your branches
Oh Christmas Tree
Oh Christmas Tree
You scare me with your insects