THE FIRST CHRISTMAS No, not the VERY first Christmas.....I am referring for the first christmas that my husband and I shared.....well not even the first one we spent together, but our first married Christmas. Christmas as husband and wife! We had only been married a little over a month, and had no money to buy a christmas tree. I was so happy when my dad went out and bought a tabletop artificial tree for himself and mom, and offered their old artificial tree to me. It was 5 foot at best, and dad had nailed it to a wooden platform to make it taller! Over the years, one family member or the other, had fallen into its branches and/or knocked it over, so it had several "bare spaces". But that was ok. I got the tree into the apartment and then i thought hmmmm, no decorations. And of course, no money for decorations. The next day i went to the store and bought several bags of bows (the sticky back kind that you ...