Our First Tree

I told you I would have a post on this before Christmas. I have always believed we had a fairy tale courtship, this was just one more thing that made me believe that.

The year we started dating Andrew had already worked for Walmart for 8 years. Due to the schedule Walmart management keeps, most of those Christmas's were spent alone, no time to get to his parents and back in the time he had. He had also experienced 8 Black Fridays and had come to the conclusion that most of the world no longer knew what Christmas was anyway. When we started dating, I nicknamed him "Scrooge" and he was fine with that.

On Saturday, November 30th, I was working until 6 at the Decatur Walmart, Andrew got off at 4 so he came up and we were going to spend the evening shopping and going out to dinner. We went to the mall and going up the escalator at Kohl's there was the most BEAUTIFUL tree, I had ever seen. It was a traditional green tree with all white, clear and silver decorations. It had three blue spotlights shining on it. It was gorgeous.

On Monday evening, Andrew called me at work, he asked if I would come by his apartment on the way home. I was working until 9 that night but told him, it would be late, but I would be there (of course this was the night we decided to elope). I walked in the door of his apartment and was greeted by this tree, identical to the tree at Kohl's. I just stood in amazement, it even had the blue spotlights shining on it. Monday, he had the day off, he had drove to Decatur took pictures of the tree, went back to Walmart, had one hour development develop them, and bought all the things, including the tree and the blue spotlights at Walmart (he's such a good Walmart associate). You must remember, he had time to go pick out our rings that day too!

Andrew still gets dragged down by the commercialism of Christmas, Walmart started playing Christmas music at 12:01 a.m, November 1, yes, the morning after Halloween. He also has family to come home to though, and a home and a community that he belongs to, that makes all the difference in the world.