Christmas Tree Decorating
As has happened in years past, decorating the Christmas Tree around our home starts early in the morning with the assembly of the tree. To hold all the ornaments we have a nine foot tree that requires around 1400 lights. Once the tree is up and the lights are on, our trip down memory lane can begin. You see, over 30 years ago when Millie and I got married we started collecting Christmas Ornaments from every where we traveled too. Soon enough family members saw how much we enjoyed our ornament collection and elected to add to it with ornaments of things they noticed that we enjoyed; Barbie Dolls, Harley Davidson, Atlanta Braves, and of course Georgia Bulldogs just to mention a few. Today we have over 600 special ornaments along with over 100 filler ornaments that go on our tree.
So as you can well imagine, decorating the tree involves discussion about when and where we acquired certain ornaments, our first Christmas together and the "Baby’s First Christmas" ball from when our son was born. Perhaps a bit of this tradition is being passed on as we gave our son and his wife a "Baby’s First Christmas" ball to hang on their tree. I guess it goes without saying that we are really looking forward to Christmas Day and our son, daughter-in-law and grandson Lincoln coming over for the day.
I can only hope that as you are decorating for the holidays you have as much fun and as many fond memories as we do. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays To All.
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