DECORATING THE CHRISTMAS TREE

Sharing Stories

December 12, 2022 at 12:49 a.m.

Barbara and her late husband "Sir" Kuhlman and their son

...by Barbara Kuhlman

DECORATING THE CHRISTMAS TREE

My brothers and I decorated the Christmas tree when we were small. Then my mother came along and rearranged it.

When I got my own kids and tree, I let them do all the decorating.

All the balls were at the bottom, of course, and we stood back about five feet to throw the tinsel. We loved the fun of it.

I was pretty poor, so I bought two scrawny, pitiful, skinny, horrible little trees and tied them together. They cost $1.50 each. I tied them to the wall with a rope so my kids wouldn’t tip them over.

Those were the days!

Barbara Kuhlman is a Kirkland resident, a former beauty shop owner, tattoo artist, and the widow of a businessman who was knighted in Finland.

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