It's All About the Memories!
Christmas Tree Photo Ideas can be tough sometimes. The hustle and bustle of getting the tree put up, the decorations out and ready, lights tested, and ornaments at hand can be a little chaotic.
When my kids were small we lived in Montana and it was a tradition to spend the whole day all around getting the tree! All bundled up we would head out to the woods to scour for that perfect tree!
Wrestling a frozen tree into a tree stand can be humorous AFTER it’s accomplished! Once secure we would let the tree stand in the middle of the room overnight to warm up and scent the air with the amazing fresh-cut pine smell.
Now we have a fake tree and I use Christmas Spirit essential oil to give our home that wonderful Christmas smell!
We always put our tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving giving us three days to get the tree and house decorated and marking the start of our Christmas season.
When the kids were little I would stress over where the ornaments were and how the tree looked. Now, no stress. I’ve learned it doesn’t matter.
“What matters is the love I have for those tiny hands putting the ornaments on the tree and the memories we are making while doing it!”
~ Tammey
Tree Decorating Tips (Lots of Experience Talking Here!)
- Take a deep breath and don’t look at it as a work of perfection, but a work of AFFECTION. The stories are the most precious part of a scrapbooking and of life.
- Accept that they are excited, opinionated, unsure, overly sure, too short, not interior designers, and don’t have the years of experience with decorating that you do 🙂
- You are teaching them in this moment.
- Relax! Diffuse Stress Away, sip a latte, turn on Christmas music or whatever else helps to relax you and allow the fun in!
To help make it easier;
- Keep the fragile, precious ornaments aside and put them on yourself. The top of the tree where littles can’t reach will keep them safer.
- Paper, plastic or other unbreakable ornaments are best for the littles to hang.
- Smaller ornaments are easier for little hands.
- Take a deep breath and don’t look at it as a work of perfection, but a work of AFFECTION. The stories are the most precious part of a scrapbooking and of life.
- Accept that they are excited, opinionated, unsure, overly sure, too short, not interior designers, and don’t have the years of experience with decorating that you do 🙂
- You are teaching them in this moment.
- Relax! Diffuse Stress Away, sip a latte, turn on Christmas music or whatever else helps to relax you and allow the fun in!
- Let them fill in the whole bottom-front of the tree for as much as they can safely reach.
- Respond with enthusiasm and encouragement as they put the ornaments carefully on the tree.
- You can fill it all in later. Trust me, it’s adorable and you will delight at the photos for years to come.
- The most precious memories don’t actually come from the perfectly placed ornaments on the tree. They come from the people around it.
The most precious memories don't actually come from the perfectly placed ornaments on the tree. They come from the people around it.
- As the tree gets filled in be sure to take pictures. Digital photos make it easy to snap away and pick the best later!
- Focus on how sweet it is that they are having so much fun and how great the scrapbooking layouts will look with these photos.
- Remember: Treasured memories are being made!
- As the tree gets filled in be sure to take pictures. Digital photos make it easy to snap away and pick the best later!
- Focus on how sweet it is that they are having so much fun and how great the scrapbooking layouts will look with these photos.