My household sisters did not know that I was planning to sneak a Christmas tree into the house.
This tree comes from the nearby Catholic church Men's Club tree sale; on behalf of St. Nick, I shoved it in the back of my car and drove through side streets to get here.
Friday night it lay
on its side right outside the window on my left. The girls played cards and talked and had no idea that a tree was coming in the dead of night. O magic night!