Traditions

When I said before I was busy, I was not kidding. Work, home, and myself have been nonstop. And now it's that time of the year where everything flies by and I feel like I am running behind a train that I am trying to catch. The stores do not help either, even before Halloween the Christmas stuff is out!! Really, let me get through Thanksgiving first, so then I can think about Christmas. I will say I am proud of myself. I am almost done with Christmas shopping. Never have I been done this early. The kids and Dee are completely done...

Well except for a new ornament for each of them. It's a tradition that my mom did with us. Every Christmas we all got a new ornament. They would be special to us and our likes and style. Almost all of mine are bunnies. My brothers were football and Star Wars and my sisters were bears. Every year we would help her put the ornaments on the tree. We would be going through them and asking "Is this mine?" We would only want to put up our own and hand over the ones that were not ours to the rightful owner. Some we fought over. There are a few ornaments that are 3 replicas, so it didn't matter. Then when I moved out and got my own tree my mom gave me all of my ornaments. That first Christmas I did not have a bare tree and I had a piece of my childhood in my new home. She still gives us ornaments. Last year's was great. Everyone got a snowman. They all gave our birth order, for example mine said "Middle Child." On the belly was written our names. And everyone had a sign the snowman held that said "Mom's Favorite."

I have started the same tradition with Dorian and Kayla. We put all the ornaments on the tree this past Sunday and Dorian was asking the same question "Is this one mine?" It brought back so many memories and I can't wait to hear Kayla ask it too. And one day I can't wait to give Dorian and Kayla their own special ornaments from years past.






By the way these pictures were taken with my new iPhone. Love it!!! Thanks Dee for an early Christmas present.

♥Liz