It has been a long time since all of our kids were home to decorate the Christmas tree. The first year Maria went to college I was excited as the time approached for her to come home for the holidays. My plan was to have the house all Christmasy when she walked in but the boys were adamant that I wait for Maria to help with the decorating. I thought it was so sweet.
Mike got "John Denver and the Muppets" going with the volume at an exuberant level. I'd set the tree up the night before, with help from Bode. The lights were on and it was time to go through the ornaments.
Mike got "John Denver and the Muppets" going with the volume at an exuberant level. I'd set the tree up the night before, with help from Bode. The lights were on and it was time to go through the ornaments.
We have some really lovely ornaments, but you've all seen lovely ornaments before. I want to show you our most interesting ornament...
This is a guy on a camel made out of pipecleaners. I don't remember the whole story but our son-in-law, Eric, made this years ago. I remember that he was new to the family and was noticing we had a lot of handmade ornaments. He was goofing around and came up with this lovely deal. I am certain he did not realize we'd think it was so funny we'd use it until the end of time! The camel doesn't look too camelish anymore, but it makes me smile. It makes our tree different from that of any other family!
Does you family have any weird (sorry Eric) ornaments?
...or weird traditions?
2 comments:
We have so many weird traditions!
Hey, that's no weird ornament; that's an EKW original! HA! It's very cool and clever, actually! :-)
One of our weird traditions is that I use weird names on our gifts. For example, my brother might get something "To Ross, From Monica" or "To Donny, From Marie." Mom often gets, "To Naomi, From Wynonna" or "To Carol, From Marcia." I try to come up with new ones every year, but I'm kind of running out of famous brother-sister and/or mother-daughter duos! ;-)
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