Day 13.323: One stress avoided

Although I may have been indulging a little hyperbole when I said that the trip back home with the Christmas tree is my most stressful fifteen minutes of driving each year, there is definitely a degree of truth to it. With the tree tied to the roof (often by me) and completely out of sight I find myself trying to read the expressions of passing drivers to know if all is still well up there.

Today, we went a cut down a tree at our favorite local spot and since only Exile #2 and I were there, we put the tree inside the minivan instead of on top of it and avoided that particular stress altogether.