Today I'm thankful for our Christmas tree ...
My kids INSISTED we set it up today.
I wish I had some pictures - but I can't get them onto this desktop computer right now - maybe another day ... but our faithful, old artificial tree has now stood up for us for 18 Christmases! We bought it when we were newlyweds, living in Washington State. It has been moved to Texas, Germany, Virginia, and now Missouri. In many ways, I love that old artificial tree ... but in many ways, I'm seeing its demise as it is losing its needles as alarmingly as a dying real tree and complete branches are having to be taped back on to its limbs. I hope to score a pre-lit tree this year at after-Christmas sales?! It would be SO nice to NOT have to string lights.
Thankfully, I will have the same ornaments no matter what tree I have up each year: our "First Christmas Together ~ 1992" ornament (even though we got married 2 days AFTER Christmasn in 1992!) and all our baby's 1st Christmas ornaments (1998, 2000, and 2009). Then there is the "First Christmas in Our New House ~ 2004" ornament that I love! And there are all the "Tea" ornaments from our annual girls' tea with my bestest friends and their daughters - December 15 this year will make it #9, I think! So many ornaments from exchanges and received as gifts from friends and family ... some from the Christmas markets and stores in Germany ...
Each ornament has a little story to tell.
I was feeling a little bah-humbug about the holidays this year ... but now that the tree is up in the living room, I do believe I'm finding some of the joy that comes with focusing on what matters most to me: my family and my faith.
For this I am thankful.
4 comments:
the christmas tree seems good to me..i used also in my single days in my appartment a artificial one..now we dont have one cause the space in the living room isnt that big because of the furniture..but i decorated like the table and window and upstairs..connie as long we have the lord and our loves ones around is happiness all over the place..im glad you feel better..take care friend..
I am thankful that I have found your blog...ich bin dankbar das ich dich gefunden habe!!! we have so much in common...the threads of our lives have run side by side during different decades...I can not wait to find our more.
Sending you many blessings in awesomeness how the LORD brings his flock together!
Karla from the cozy cottage
My husband has always liked taking the boys out to find the "perfect" tree. We have never had an artificial tree. When I see them at the stores they look so real. I long for the tree that I don't have to water every day, that I don't have to clean up the pine needles, that I don't have to unclog the vacuum cleaner because of the pine needles!! Even if yours has seen it's last days, I admit, I am jealous! ;-)
I wonder if we have the same 1992 ornament?? :D
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