Our Christmas Tree

Our first Christmas together was in 1998. All I did, he says was complain about the pine needles from the real tree. So a few days after I took the tree down, him & I went to Sears and he bought a 7 ft beautiful artificial tree for $35. We have used it every year & it looks a little thinner & the bottom branches have been chewed by our cat. Last year I put our tree up on Thanksgiving night. I had been secretly wanting a new one. One that was pre lit and came in 3 pieces instead of 150. But I put our 11 year old tree up and decided it would be the last time. After Christmas I would get us a new one. Everything was on the tree but it needed to be moved back more so I began scooting the already broken and old plastic flimsy tree stand. Well, the next thing you know, the tree began to fall. I began to yell as I was holding it up. Almost crying I asked Ted what we were going to do. He was tired from Thanksgiving dinner & the drives to all our family members, but he told me to lift the tree up as he took the stand out of the pole & sat the pole in his work boot. He quietly got his coat & shoes on & took the stand out to the garage as our son followed him in his pajamas. While I sat down at the computer trying to find a tree stand or a tree on craigslist on Thanksgiving night. They came in from the garage a while later with the tree stand fixed and he had me lift the tree up while he put it back in the stand. I never looked at it to see how he fixed it. That's how he was though. He could repair just about anything. So I pulled out the tree this year and as I pulled out the stand I cried. I got to look at how he fixed it with a piece of a hanger. I miss him so much. I would give anything to spend even a few minutes with him. I love you Ted.