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" A confession: I&amp;#039;m the type who keeps her Christmas tree around (and lit) long into January. I can handle the fact that the holidays are over \u2014 listen, I&amp;#039;m thrilled that I won&amp;#039;t have to hear seasonal music in stores for another nine months or so \u2014 but I feel a bit sorry for the tree, as it only came into our apartment a few days before Christmas Eve (it was crunch time at REDBOOK just before the holiday, and we didn&amp;#039;t have much time to pick one out before then).   Adorable, no? It&amp;#039;s hard to find a relatively tall tree in New York City, since most of the local farms&amp;#039; six-footers have wide lower branches and would take up too much floor space. This one has a great shape, isn&amp;#039;t yet dried out and crunchy, still smells fantastic...and I can&amp;#039;t yet bear to turn it over to be mulched and recycled. Part of my foot-dragging is laziness, sure, but it&amp;#039;s also sentimental: My husband and I had a lovely, low-key Christmas at home this year (family came to us, and we kept things simple), and savoring that for a bit longer doesn&amp;#039;t hurt anyone. As for the decorations from my mother-in-law in our window, the bowl of German holiday chocolates still on the counter, and footage of the WPIX yule log in our queue of recorded TV shows...those should go, and soon. Hello, Serving Dish readers! I&amp;#039;m Lauren, and I hang on to my tree for far too long, love all things decorative, and will be blogging both here and via Twitter. Hope you survived the holidays \u2014 can&amp;#039;t wait to chat about projects for the new year with you! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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