Life Lessons For My Son

Recently I was able to teach Eli a valuable lesson about what it means to be a man. A man does not pay $50 for a Christmas tree from the hardware store a mile from our house, because that would be easy. A man forces his family to drive to a Christmas tree farm an hour away from home where he can pay $50 for the privilege of picking amongst the few sad looking trees left so that he can cut it down himself and drive home with it on the roof of his car. Why does a man do this? I'm not really sure actually. I'm kind of learning as I go along here.



Here we are picking amongst the extensive collection of sad trees.



Here Eli is telling me how to cut down a tree.



Success! I killed a tree and tied it to the roof of my car!