Christmas is all about traditions. Every family
has one, and it centers around Hallmark. We started collecting the Hallmark
dated ornaments in 1976 and bought one every year since. I don't think we meant to start a tradition. My dad picked one up and then we got one the next year...and the next year...and the next. Since I’m not married
I still get to decorate the family tree at my parents’ house.
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| The original 1976 ornament |
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| A more recent addition |
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| 2017 ornament |
It’s my dad’s job to take the ornaments out of
each box while my mom and I hang them on the tree. We always joke about how he
stops for each one, marveling at how the early ones were so inexpensive, and of
course, there are a lot of “Oh, I remember this one.”
A box filled with memories…literally. My favorite part of Christmas. Does your family have any traditions when it comes to decorating?
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3 comments:
What a lovely Holiday tradition, Kristin!
We like to put a string of little white lights on the hearth in a curving line and set our collection of snowmen among them. We also love to put up a Nativity that we got the first year we were married.
Happy Holidays!
As a kid, my parents would unbox the decorations but let us hang them as soon as we were old enough to handle the fragile glass ones carefully.
Now they're all plastic but each year we take the kids to buy one new ornament each and they decorate the trees other than the lights. We do it thee first weekend of December, with Christmas music playing and a box of isvuits or sweets to eat as we go.
This year my oldest granddaughter came over and raided my stash of Christmas decorations. She left with 2 bins but left 6 behind. Those six are still in the basement. I bought a wreath for the front door and a planter/centerpiece for the table. I have balsam and pine candles and if I get to it, I've a place where I can cut a bunch of holly to put into vases for the mantle and maybe a side table.
However, your post brought back memories of Christmas past where we told the stories of the different ornaments as we decorated the tree. Somewhere in the bins is the Christmas village that was my dad's when he was a little boy, and the ornament my parents bought for their first Christmas so I certainly relate to the joy unpacking the reminiscing.
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