Pardon me for writing in English today, but I'm still laughing too hard about my last mistake with the "outdated machine". And I wanted to share this story with you.

Two years ago my mother entered a contest that the newspaper (The Las Vegas Review-Journal) had for the best Christmas memory. Her story won first place. She wrote a story from her childhood. Her family was very poor and they had never had a Christmas tree. My grandmother decided to make one out of, guess what?, an old green umbrella.

I hope you enjoy my mother's story: The Umbrella Tree