The Christmas tree, I mean. We had a fun time last night pulling out all the old ornaments and carefully placing them exactly where they should go. (I hadn’t counted on the time it would take for my 7-year-old master of ceremonies to hang his treasures … we were up pretty late.) I still can’t get over how EARLY everything happens for Christmas now; I felt like we were way late in our decorating, even though I remember, as a kid, getting our tree the week before Christmas. Is it a Southern thing (I grew up in Ohio)? O r has the commercial culture permeated everything including those old traditions?