That is lovely, and so true of our tree as well. I do wish a few more of the really old ornaments from Italy had survived. There are only two of them. I think your garland is beautiful. Thank you for posting this. I had never really thought about how much family history is held and displayed each Christmas in the tree.
I hear ya' about the cold. Started with the sore throat and cough last Thursday night. By Saturday, my head hurt so bad and was clogged. You know the drill.
Your tree is lovely. The history behind the tree even more so. Thanks for telling about it all. Hope you are on the mend and over this stuff completely soon.
I was thinking about the history part of the Christmas tree, too. Even if the ornaments aren't expensive or elaborate, they gather history as you pull them out of their boxes and place them on the tree, admire them among the branches and twinkling lights, then carefully take them down and pack them away for next year.
I've felt out of sorts all season because we didn't put up a tree this year -- we were going to Texas, DS wasn't coming home, the dog was sick, I had a root canal, etc. etc. -- so we just never got around to it. (I bought a little poinsettia at the grocery store and arranged Christmas cards around it, but that was the extent of our decorating.) It feels like another level of "empty nest syndrome" -- since I was a divorced mom for a long time, I was used to my son not being home on many Christmas days, but not being away for the whole season.
I think I need to get down my favorite christmas mugs and use them for a week or two -- just so I don't feel like I skipped christmas entirely this year.
Oh, that's a beautiful tree! I love the banner garland--very Victorian, in a way (although I don't know that I've ever seen anything quite like it).
I don't have any glass ornaments at all for exactly the reason you describe, although this year both cats only gave the tree (well, trees--this year I had two) a cursory inspection resulting in the death of just one ornament, a feathered bird as it happens. :)
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the sore throat and cough last Thursday
night. By Saturday, my head hurt so bad
and was clogged. You know the drill.
Your tree is lovely. The history behind
the tree even more so. Thanks for telling
about it all. Hope you are on the mend
and over this stuff completely soon.
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I was thinking about the history part of the Christmas tree, too. Even if the ornaments aren't expensive or elaborate, they gather history as you pull them out of their boxes and place them on the tree, admire them among the branches and twinkling lights, then carefully take them down and pack them away for next year.
I've felt out of sorts all season because we didn't put up a tree this year -- we were going to Texas, DS wasn't coming home, the dog was sick, I had a root canal, etc. etc. -- so we just never got around to it. (I bought a little poinsettia at the grocery store and arranged Christmas cards around it, but that was the extent of our decorating.) It feels like another level of "empty nest syndrome" -- since I was a divorced mom for a long time, I was used to my son not being home on many Christmas days, but not being away for the whole season.
I think I need to get down my favorite christmas mugs and use them for a week or two -- just so I don't feel like I skipped christmas entirely this year.
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I don't have any glass ornaments at all for exactly the reason you describe, although this year both cats only gave the tree (well, trees--this year I had two) a cursory inspection resulting in the death of just one ornament, a feathered bird as it happens. :)
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