Decorating for Christmas

Yesterday was pretty blah, but today we decided to put up the Christmas decorations on my ward. After digging through the MILVAN full of dusty old boxes, we found a sad little tree that Charlie Brown would have loved, old ornaments from years past, and a few miscellaneous things such as a stuffed monkey that sings Christmas carols. I had a relatively light patient load in the morning, so I helped set up and decorate the tree. The first step was to undo last years tree (they had packed it away with all the decorations still on it), straighten out all the smushed branches, and untangle the lights. I absolutely had a blast. I did realize something though- what would be considered so dirty, tacky, and useless back home was suddenly the greatest thing ever over here. Our Christmas tree would have been loved only by a half blind 90 year old Grandmother in Florida, but to us stuck here for the holidays, that tree is great.