Unboxing the Christmas decorations is like going to a reunion with old friends. You pick up where you left off.
It’s me who has changed. With each passing year, the trinkets, the ornaments, the sparkly and the shiny things I ask to see in December seem more dear to me.
Little ones hang the ornaments on unreasonable branches. They bend fragile wire boughs the wrong way. Jingle bells lose their jingle and maybe even their jangle, all because they are loved.
They are exclaimed over.
“I remember this! I love this!”
And then I put it on the table or drape it on something high and hope the Toddler du Yuletide doesn’t destroy it.
Usually, everything survives a month on display and eleven months in basement boxes.
So, Hello. You don’t know how nice it is to see you again.
I like the colorful Santa.
I love the holiday ornament reunion. The girls have rearranged the tree half a dozen times already; hopefully everything survives!
Your pictures are so lovely. I need to take picture of ours before it’s destroyed. Oh wait…too late.
Love that last colorful photograph!!! Happy Times to you!!!
My sentiments exactly! Lovey way to put it, especially your first line.
Our boys have been SOOOOO excited to decorate this year. They even wanted to decorate their room. I humoured them and strung a few strands of spare lights around their closet. I always loved having the house transformed this time of year, it’s almost magical. Great pictures, btw!
Lovely pictures, my dear. I have a lot of Christmas decorations but have never paid much attention to ornaments until my mother-in-law instituted a tradition to give us an ornament reminiscent of our year (this year, she gave us a fat cat one to commemorate Fat Kitty’s arrival. 🙂 Now, I love unloading our ornaments because they represent so many wonderful memories.