Magisterium,
I like your new custom of an "Advent" tree. It kinda parallels our custom of gradually adding to the Nativity Scene during Advent through to Epiphany. Do you have a real or fake tree? I ask because keeping a real tree up to Feb. 2nd. seems like a bold initiative.
Alas, I am a creature of my times. It's an artificial tree. But, hey, BOTH of us have artifical nativity scenes, so I guess it's okay! ;-D
Besides, I have a good "excuse," ratified by my wife, even, to bridge the seasons from Advent to Candlemas with a tree, and, now that I've got it, I ain't giving it up!