My Pink Tree

As most of my close family and friends know I'm having a lot of vision issues because of my little condition. I'm still steady on losing weight, exercising, staying on my medication, keeping a positive attitude, and never giving up on hope. That being said, I am also brave enough with my vision in a weakened state to be bold enough to enjoy every little pleasure that sight has to behold without reservation. 

It may sound a little backwards or whatever, but I am totally focusing on the decorations this year. Yes, it will cut into my gift giving budget but I'm loving each and every decoration I SEE!! I caved in and am going back to letting the family have their real tree up this year and making the huge family outting of the tree farm and all the shenanigans that our family does with the live tree. For the trade off they have (of course they didn't know there would be a trade off, lol) my own individual artificial tree.

My tree is a little 3 ft. white tree, decorated with pink or a weird off set purple/pink ornaments (that bless the staff at Menards help me know the difference between pink and red, since I can't see that difference right now). And I even found a wonderful set of PINK lights to go on the tree. It is my very own pink tree, and I kid you not I cry everytime I look at it. I truly love this little tree.

Anyone who knows me may ask why pink? I'm not a girly girl. My daughters were not girly girls. I am surrounded by testosterone, I even have 3 grandsons that I wouldn't want any other way. So why go with pink?

Pink = Strength, at least in my mind.

This tree represents to me: all the women who have fought breast cancer or any cancer and won or went on to rest because they had the strength, all the women who have carried a child and lost that child because they had the strength, all the women who raised children whether they gave birth to them or not because they had the strength, all the women who had to fight twice as hard in a man's world because she had the strength, all the women who stayed in abusive relationships and the ones who got out because they had the strength, all the women who like them or not are strong role models for women- Cher (I listen to her daily right now, she's like a cup of coffee for me), Madonna, Rosie, Oprah, Ellen, Goldie Hawn, these women have stood some battles through the media throughout time have the strength. It takes a special strength in being a strong woman and pink feels fitting to all the strong woman. 

So to all the strong women out there...I thank you. I know I'm strong...because I am a woman. And with the holidays of thankful and hope upon us I proudly display my little pink tree.