The first step in "Going Live" was to go out and find a tree. This process began by driving past multiple Christmas tree lots.
We ended up spending time searching for the tree at two lots. One is a lot set up by The Delancey Street Foundation in Oakland (at the corner of Broadway and 51st Street). The Delancey Street Foundation is an amazing organization, helping former inmates get their lives together. They have a restaurant in San Francisco along Embarcadero, which serves good food. All the employees are Delancey Street residents. The same goes for the great folks helping out at the Delancey Street Christmas Tree lots scattered around the Bay Area (and all across the country; for a complete list, click here).
You can come up with all sorts of tree criteria, I suppose -- height is particularly important. But number of branches, number of pine needles that fall off when you give it a shake, diameter of the base, and color are probably all factors.
Our 3-year-old son was beyond excited about searching for the right tree. He liked most of them; not clear that he was applying any strict criteria for selection though.
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