Tonight we hung up the Christmas tree and decorated it from top to bottom. As we decorated the tree we listened to Christmas music, sipped on some wine and turned the lights down low. If that doesn’t get you in the mood for Christmas I don’t know what will! As Jane pointed out last year, our tree looks like an Advent Tree. We fill it with purple, pink and silver bulbs and silver ribbon. Then we fill in the holes with unique ornaments we have received over the years.
As we hung some of these ornaments we stopped to show the other and comment about the significance of the ornament. We have an ornament from our first Christmas of dating in 2002. I have an ornament for the year I bought my house in 2003. Then we have the several ornaments from 2006 of our first married Christmas. We have the Theo (my cat) ornament with the note on the back saying, “Christmas 2006, he was missing for two weeks, found in an abandoned house by my parents.” We laughed as we remembered that crazy Christmas Eve last year. I handed Frank the last ornament to go on the tree, It’s a Wonderful Life with George lassoing the moon. He looked at me with sad puppy eyes and asked if it was over. Decorating the tree started off as a chore on a Friday night but ended up being a really fun, date night. I love nights like this when simple things like decorating a tree can make you smile. That’s what life is all about.
As we hung some of these ornaments we stopped to show the other and comment about the significance of the ornament. We have an ornament from our first Christmas of dating in 2002. I have an ornament for the year I bought my house in 2003. Then we have the several ornaments from 2006 of our first married Christmas. We have the Theo (my cat) ornament with the note on the back saying, “Christmas 2006, he was missing for two weeks, found in an abandoned house by my parents.” We laughed as we remembered that crazy Christmas Eve last year. I handed Frank the last ornament to go on the tree, It’s a Wonderful Life with George lassoing the moon. He looked at me with sad puppy eyes and asked if it was over. Decorating the tree started off as a chore on a Friday night but ended up being a really fun, date night. I love nights like this when simple things like decorating a tree can make you smile. That’s what life is all about.
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