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  LeeAnna  asks   Real Christmas Tree or Artificial Christmas Tree? REAL!  All the way!  I love the scent of a pine tree.  It makes Christmas special to have some nature in our home!  I vividly remember when my Mom bought an artificial tree when I was a child.  I was SO disappointed.  They were so ugly back then!  I vowed I would never have one.    I also remember the year my Dad brought me a real tree he cut down at our cottage.  It might have been my first year in an apartment on my own.  It wasn't a big tree but since I didn't have any ornaments that was okay.  I decorated it with balloons!  Amazing they didn't pop. For most of our married life, we have gone to tree farms to cut down our own Christmas tree.  It has been such a lovely tradition.  Unfortunately, the tree farms around here no longer grow Scotch pine so we have resorted to buying our tree from the Boy Scouts.   Our tr...