Tis the season........that phrase can mean many different things this time of year. In our house, it means a walk down memory lane. You see, each year our children receive a new Christmas ornament. It has their name and the year written on it. It could be as simple as a home made clay ornament to a sparkly store bought one. Part of our holiday ritual is finding the new ornament on the tree.
As our children have grown up and moved out on their own, ornaments were boxed up and given to them so that they could start their own Christmas trees.
But those aren't the only ornaments decorating our tree. There are very special ones that were on my tree when I was a child. For Rick, it's not Christmas until his "Santa mug" is hung on a bough.
And what tree would be complete without the ornaments that were lovingly made in elementary school and presented to the parents. They were oohhed and ahhhed over and hung proudly on the tree.
Our tree has quite a few of those.
The decorations on the tree reflect our lives over the years. In the lean years, our tree was made beautiful by alot of macaroni, glue and glitter. As we prospered, so did our tree.
There are many folks that design their Christmas tree...with the latest colors, the newest ornaments, the best and the brightest. If that's their choice to have a "magazine" tree, good for them
I'll stick with our original, one of a kind, tree of memories.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
