Blue About Not Being Green...

I really try to be green. I use public transport to get the girls to school and for travel all around Holland. I ride my bike to the grocery store. After I fly, I purchase carbon offsets from Greenseat. So it was with great trepidation that I purchased a fake Xmas tree this year. As I look at it with our favorite ornaments that I brought from North Carolina and the cute Thalys train set around the bottom, I feel guilty. Guilty that my tree came out of a box from Thailand (at least it wasn’t China). Guilty that it never gave off any oxygen or sweet pine fragrances. Guilty that eventually it’ll end up in a landfill for at least a few hundred years. At least it makes two sweet girls smile, so I don’t feel entirely guilty (although I do feel guilty that I forgot to take a picture of them in front of it).