We started off the last week of Advent with a tree trimming. The best part of waiting til the last week to put up a Christmas tree is that they are cheap!
One of my favorite Christmas memories is hanging ornaments, they each have a story and it is kind of like looking through a photo album. They conjurer up found memories of the years and kind thoughts of the loving hands that made/picked out the perfect adornment for your tree.
One of my favorites ornaments in the one PT is hanging.
Each of the children received one of these stained glass ball from Grandma Driver on their first Christmas. The balls are perfect...not breakable and very intriguing. Prefect for little tree trimmers!
One of my favorite Christmas memories is hanging ornaments, they each have a story and it is kind of like looking through a photo album. They conjurer up found memories of the years and kind thoughts of the loving hands that made/picked out the perfect adornment for your tree.
One of my favorites ornaments in the one PT is hanging.
Each of the children received one of these stained glass ball from Grandma Driver on their first Christmas. The balls are perfect...not breakable and very intriguing. Prefect for little tree trimmers!
Avery hanging one of our newest additions from Geegee and Papa.
We each got a glass star...Seeing five glass star in the box made my heart swell seeing how in just a few short Christmases our family has grown to a handful!
Hanging with care.
Paul Thomas was just like his Daddy when it comes to tree trimming, he had to survey the tree to find the perfect location for each ornament.
Philip was in charge of filling in the top!
Mary Colette took care of the bottom.
When you get to be of a certain age (speaking for myself here), you tend to forget the stories behind the ornaments. Helpful hint: Write them down while you still can remember!!
ReplyDeleteBut they are still pretty.
Many of the ornaments we have been given over the years have my notation either on the bottom of the ornament itself or a slip of paper in the box or tissue around it: name of giver/year.
ReplyDeleteAlso I have found it V-e-r-y helpful to take the off the top of the huge carton or plastic bin, etc. and turn it upside down along side, then each little box is emptied and laid in the upside down Top in the same position where it came from in the Carton itself, so you are stacking empty boxes, wrappers, in reverse order. When all of the ornaments are hung, replace the empties back into the big Carton in the same order. When its time to take ornaments down reverse the process - filling the little boxes, containers. That way I am not faced with re-packing the whole box/carton again - trying to remember exactly how I had all of those little boxes fitted into the big Carton/Container.