Riot and Frolic

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Holiday Cheer : Day 8

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Anybody?  Anybody?

Every year I feel the same anticipation on this big day…

Advent Adventures

Day 8 : GET A TREE.

We go to this tree farm that isn't really a tree farm, but is adorable (so adorable they don't even have a website) and family-owned and HAS SHEEP.

Zoo and I didn't participate in the actual picking, because someone was sick… in the car… on the way there… so sick that I had to strip most of her clothes off, but even without our extremely particular opinions, the rest of the gang picked out a great tree.  

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We have a cast iron tree stand and it's amazing.  We got it for our first Christmas together from my in-laws and every year we stand the tree up and use several expletives about how great it is.

Notice today's activity wasn't "Get and decorate a tree".  We are spreading out the fun.  

What's your stand on trees?  Fake or real?  Store or farm?  What are your favorite decorations?

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Two years ago: Decisions, Decisions, in which I try to make a decision.

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