In 2008, Oregon Christmas tree growers cut and sold 7.34 million trees with a value of $110.1 million.

More Oregon-grown Christmas trees end up in California than any other state.  Guess that makes sense since we’re the closest state with the most people.

For every real Christmas tree harvested, 1 to 3 seedlings are planted the following spring.

Sources:  National Christmas Tree Association and National Agriculture Statistics Service

If you’re wondering why I’m still on the 12 Days of Christmas and it’s New Year’s Day, scroll down in my blog to Trivia Day 1.  There’s a good reason for this.

Simple:  Virtual Assistant.  Mystery solved.  I should have figured it out myself because my dad works from a home office here in California and his assistant works from her home in Pennsylvania.

A few weeks later on Twitter, someone referred to my mom as my V.A.  I never really thought about her as an assistant because she’s much more than that.  Plus she isn’t virtual. :)  So I started calling her my R.A. (Real Assistant) just for fun.   But that wasn’t right either.

Next idea:  Since my mom does a lot of my business stuff, calling her my B.M. (Business Manager) made more sense except that I’ve heard doctors use the initials BM so that didn’t work either.  [If you've never heard the medical term BM, ask someone.  It's funny.]

So what initials could describe all that Mom does for me?    I thought awhile longer and then came up with the perfect title:  M.O.M. (Mother of Me!)

V.A.s are great.  R.A.s are too but MOMs are the best!  I wouldn’t be where I’m at without her.