There's No Pinterest Tree Here

Tree photos have been popping up on my feed. And I notice that most of them look...well, like Pinterest trees. There's nothing wrong with it, mind you, but some of these people have kids and I'm all, "How?" I think this because in my house, my kids help decorate the tree, and we have an assortment of ornaments. They are not matching or color coordinated. (And shout out to the people with the fake trees! Whoop!)

Oh, and my daughter picked out the star this year. It looks like we have a disco in the room. Cue thumping music now.

But as you see, it's an eclectic assortment of ornaments. There is not a large colorful string circling the tree because our cat would attack it and the whole thing would come crashing down. And then our cat would look at US like WE did it.

Our tree wouldn't be considered a Pinterest tree, but each of these ornaments mean something.

I've had this Simba one since I was little. And I picked up this house when I was tiny and living in Italy:

I've had these Bert and Ernie skating figures since I was like 5. And in the middle is my first Christmas ornament with my husband.

My daughter put together this Santa butt ornament with the poop emoji underneath. Is it gross? Kinda, but we're the type of family who laughs at farts, so it works. (Chewbacca is clearly excited about it all!)

Also, there are sometimes 3 ornaments on one branch, because when kids decorate, they don't always pay attention. But it's okay because I got them out of their rooms and off their devices. And it's fun when they're like, "Aw, remember when I made this?"

So I'm here to say it's okay if your tree doesn't look perfect. And it's okay if it does.

But imperfections have always been more interesting to me. Each of these ornaments tell a part of our story.

Do you have a Pinterest tree?