Comments on: I Used To Have a Pottery Barn Tree

By: ScoMan

ScoMan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:44:29 +0000

I think what you need is a second tree. You have your pottery barn tree, and then one especially for the kids stuff. They’ll love it because they’ll feel special with “their” tree, and you get your pottery barn tree back.

Mum won’t do away with any of mine ornaments. Not even the one where Santa is a golllywog. It’s horrible, but she treasures it. Oh well.

With no kids of my own, I can’t understand these things.

By: Kate@And Then I Was a Mom

Kate@And Then I Was a Mom — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:28:04 +0000

I only have one school-made ornament so far, since my daughter just started preschool this fall. I absolutely love it. I also love how she trims the tree with us.

That being said, I rearrange the ornaments as soon as she goes to bed. The tree would fall over from the ornament weight in the bottom right quadrant if I didn’t. You can have only so many snowmen and glittery Santas before those suckers take down the entire tree. So I’m with you on the aesthetics.

By: kys

kys — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:46:05 +0000

The way I handle this is by having 2 trees. One for the kidlet stuff and other misc. ornaments and another matchy-matchy fancy Sears tree. The problem is that they are trying to infiltrate the fancy-shmancy tree, too.

By: Surferwife

Surferwife — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:21:31 +0000

As *ahem* slightly *ahem* OCD as I am I wouldn’t trade the kidlet masterpieces for the world.

By: Jooles

Jooles — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:46:39 +0000

Geez…I fell terrible…I don’t have any of the stuff my kids made! And it don’t even have a nice tree!!!????
I’m a bad mother!

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:21:46 +0000

Same way I feel about some of the ornaments that are scattered around the house. Live in the now woman…. Out with the old, in with the new.
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TOG says: Hey, that’s the same way I feel about some husbands . . .

By: meredith

meredith — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:14:21 +0000

i don’t have kids yet, so i still have that pottery barn-looking tree (with red and gold ornaments, by the way – i knew you had good taste)! but i’m thinking i’ll do what my parents do one day… have that big, beautiful glam tree downstairs then upstairs they have the kiddie tree with everything me and my siblings made over the years. well, actually my mom didn;t love me as a kid so she only has my siblings’ ornaments. she apparently “lost” mine. anyways, it’s a win-win situation because we still get all the memories of the kindergarten ornaments plus the beauty of a themed tree.

By: Elle

Elle — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:44:24 +0000

I didn’t LOL but you brought a real smile to my face. I remember one I made – an angel, cut out of a styrofoam meat tray! Every year my Mum would bring out the box of ornaments – beautiful ones from their years of marriage and all the ones my sister and I had made. We hung every one! Loved that styrofoam angel!

By: cath

cath — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:55:37 +0000

I would never do away with Any of the home made ornaments that they have made, What I do however is hang all of them at the back of the tree (the tree is in a corner) where nobody can see them!!!, cause let me tell you none of my boys are very “artsy” so most of their home made decorations are quite hideouse!!! Sorry Boys!!!