Taking down Christmas - what a sad thing. I have my piano room back, but it seems somewhat less musical than it did before. There are no twinkling lights, no dangling ornaments on a hand-me-down Christmas tree, no blue velvet tree skirt with messages of "Peace" and "Good Will," no hopeful surprises of gifts beneath the tree...it's just less musical without these once-a-year furnishings.
The need to have my things put back in their places was too strong a pull - I admit I took Christmas down the day after. Re-wrapping the Christmas ornaments as I put them away, making sure to put our 3 new ornaments in their boxes, was a wonderful reminder of earlier Christmases. Tony and I started a tradition of buying an ornament each year with the date on it. 8 years of ornaments dating back to 1999! This year we added 2 more ornaments, in addition to our traditional 2007 ornament: Rebecca & Mary-Gail's very own Christmas ornaments.
1999 Crystal Ornaments - a complete surprise from Tony for our first Christmas! (He got these at the Market in Charleston, SC)
The need to have my things put back in their places was too strong a pull - I admit I took Christmas down the day after. Re-wrapping the Christmas ornaments as I put them away, making sure to put our 3 new ornaments in their boxes, was a wonderful reminder of earlier Christmases. Tony and I started a tradition of buying an ornament each year with the date on it. 8 years of ornaments dating back to 1999! This year we added 2 more ornaments, in addition to our traditional 2007 ornament: Rebecca & Mary-Gail's very own Christmas ornaments.
1999 Crystal Ornaments - a complete surprise from Tony for our first Christmas! (He got these at the Market in Charleston, SC)
2000 "Santa Fireman" 
2001 Grandma Gourley made these 
2002 "Sleigh & Scarf" set (It was a cold winter) 
2003 "New Home" for our new home in Charleston, SC 
2004 "Our Family" with our two girls, Pixie & ArlaMae 
2005 "Palmetto Tree" handpainted from a co-worker 
2005 "Golden Pineapple" to remember the good & happy times & hospitality in Charleston, SC (we moved back to Utah the end of 2005) 
2006 This year was most special because we got our girls as our Christmas. 2 ornaments - once from the nurses/staff at the NICU...
...and Tony purchased the other ornaments - Angels. Very appropriate don't you think?
NEW this year:
2007 "Our Family" but bigger and better than 2004 ornament
2007 "Ducky" Rebecca's ornament. We have a Sassy ducky that she loves!
2007 "Musical Box" Mary-Gail's ornament. Reminds us of Mary-Gail's super sweet laughter & smiles
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I agree its nice to have your space back but sad its over. One tradition that Josh and I started when our kids were young is that every year the kids got a new ornimant and then when they get married they take their's with them so they have something to put on their tree.They think that its pretty fun!
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