But Emily's favorite "decoration" was the Fisher Price Little People nativity set she received as a gift two years ago. I highly recommend it for anyone with kids age 2+. She is already correctly recognizing some of the characters. (Last year she called the baby Jesus "Baby Moses".) She also loves pushing the button that plays "Away in the Manager". She sometimes sings along, except she's singing "Happy Birthday Baby Jesus". We'll have to work on that.
The tree is always the biggest decorating challenge, and in some ways the masterpiece. We have a 3-part skinny tree that I leave the lights on. Thankfully, all the strands still worked. I tried to replace one burned out bulb, but soon gave up on that. When we got married I bought all new decorations and prided myself on having a beautiful, color-coordinated tree. In the 5 Christmases since then the cheap Wal-mart decorations have gotten chipped, torn, broken and tattered. Last Christmas was especially brutal. (See posts here and here and here.) So this year I decided to reuse the lights, gold beads and bows and then dig through boxes for random, non-matching ornaments. It was a lot of fun going down memory lane. Here is a tour of our tree in pictures...
My parents gave my sisters & me an ornament every year when we were growing up. I left all the dated ball ornaments in the boxes, but got out the rest. The gold angel below is the ornament I received for my very first Christmas. We received the clear ornament the first Christmas we were married.
This is a stitched stocking from my 2nd Christmas, which was always one of my favorites, along with an angel bell from a childhood Sunday school teacher.
Here are some ornaments Emily has received.
These are ornaments I cross-stitched for a 4-H project when I was in 4th and 5th grade.
We even put up the random, somewhat gaudy, gift ornaments we have received, including the beaded candy cane and icicle from our paper carrier in Denver.
Of course, hanging a new collection of ornaments includes the requisite mess of tangled ornament hooks.
The finished product...not bad!
1 comment:
Megan, the tree looks great! I actually have 2 trees now...one for my ornaments and color-coordination - and one tree for the kids, with all their ornaments that they get each year (with 4 kids it is quite full already!) The kids each get to put on their own ornaments - and for the most part, I leave it as is....I did try to guide them into not putting ALL their ornaments on one branch! I love reading your blog -keep up the great work! Oh - and I have that same golden angel ornament from when I was a kid!
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