Little Tree, Big Dreams

Sixty years ago she planted a Norway spruce in her front yard. Last year it became the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

by CAROL SCHULTZ, Florida, New York

I LOOKED OUT my living room window at the proud little Norway spruce, still safe in its pail, standing out there in our front yard, where it would ultimately make its new home. “You’re gonna be a beauty,” I said. It was January 1960, and I was looking forward to planting our tabletop Christmas tree in the ground come spring. “That’s the one,” I’d said at the gardening store, pointing to a nicely shaped live evergreen, its roots wrapped in burlap. “You’re destined for greatness.” We’d decorated the tree and surrounded it with presents for our two young sons, Mitchell and Thomas. Now I felt almost as if I had three babies to watch grow up. That spring the tree took root—and grew along with our family. Two more sons came…

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The Joys Of Christmas (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2020

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