This Doesn't Look Like Roses!!

My mother asked me to open a box of roses that my Aunt Sissy sent her for Christmas. I cut the tape, opened the box, and to our surprise, instead of roses we saw...

 A live Christmas tree!

And included with the juniper was a string of Christmas lights and a dozen miniature ornaments!

At first my mother wasn't sure she wanted to decorate the tree, but she soon changed her mind. I cleared a space on an end table by the fireplace, and she handed me the ornaments two by two after I got the lights in place.

The ornaments are wooden and the type my Dad used to buy for us (he loved to buy Christmas decorations) and I felt a little teary as I looked at them and the connection to him they represented. 

And I feel a whole lot better now that my mother has a little bit of Christmas in her home.

Thanks, Sissy. You could not have sent a more perfect gift.