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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Memories
I love decorating our house for Christmas...the tree, the mantel, and wreaths on the windows and doors. My decorations aren't fancy. My collection of ornaments and the things on my mantle are all gifts from family and friends through the years. Each ornament on the tree and each Santa in my collection, hold treasured memories that warm my heart throughout the holiday season. I think that's why I continue to use them each year. One of the greatest Christmas blessings I have are memories...the sharing of our lives with each other. To the readers of this post, thank you for letting me share my life with you. My wish for you is that you will be showered with many blessings throughout the new year. Happy 2011.
Christmas Tins
My mother always has a stash of things she bakes for Christmas. There are "tins" of choices......cheese wafers, candied pecans, fudge, divinity, white trash, not to mention the cakes, cookies, and pies galore. I think this is the reason that I love "tins". I have a small collection of Christmas tins. I display them in my kitchen during December. However, most years, my tins have been empty for the simple reason that we have spent the holidays traveling to our parents' homes for Christmas. This year, our daughter and her husband will spend some time at our house during the holidays. Now it's my turn to fill up the tins. I think they will enjoy this tradition, don't you?
Christmas Memories....As a little girl, I remember my mother decorating our Christmas tree. I helped her hang a few ornaments, but I imagine she did the bulk of the work. I had one special ornament, a red velvet reindeer. She always let me hang it on the tree. When we were at my mother's recently, my nephews showed me a small tree they had helped my mother decorate. They delightfully showed me the red reindeer and announced "this is yours".
In December, our daughter sent us a picture of her Christmas tree. It is decorated with ornaments we had collected. Each year since she was born, I purchased two Christmas ornaments---two for her and the same two for me. We always tried to find ornaments to remind us of something special that occured that year. Even though our daughter is living over 4,000 miles away, I was amazed at how connected I felt to her knowing that her tree was decorated with the same ornaments as ours. Little did my mother know that she gave me the love of sharing Christmas ornaments with my daughter....and I hope my daughter will share this same love with her children. Traditions....memory makers.
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