Put up our Christmas tree / myLot

United States

November 30, 2024 4:17pm CST

Since we're going to our daughter's for Christmas, I'm not doing a lot of decorating. We put up the tree yesterday and I enjoyed adding all the ornaments. My tree will never make the cover of Better Homes and Gardens, but it's really special to us. Just about every ornament has a meaning. Many were made by our kids and grandkids when they were little (clothes pin reindeer, trees cut out of paper and colored with crayons.) Some of my favorites are the two blue glass balls that Nathan recorded a greeting on when he was about four. The oldest ones were given to our son on his first birthday by an aunt and uncle in Illinois 56 years ago! I love the little crystal nativity one that my Grannie gave me years ago. So many sweet memories that I love to remember every year when we put up our Christmas tree.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (93834)

• United States

30 Nov

That sounds like the tree my mom would put up at Christmas. Ornaments from every age, several handmade by little ones. Diana still does that, but none of the ornaments are from my immediate family. That’s okay though. She has some really cool ornaments that mean a lot to her I have enjoyed hearing about. I appreciate that hers was like my mom’s in that it is a personal tree, filled with things special to her. Maybe you can get a picture of your tree or a few of the special ornaments for us.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (93834)

• United States

1 Dec

@1creekgirl Somehow, I did end up with a Precious Moments ornament someone gave her decades ago, but the rest are in my dad’s attic. I wonder if my dad would mind getting up there and looking. I don’t want him to fall on the precarious ladder, but if he could do it safely I’d like to go through them.

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (41700)

• United States

1 Dec

I'll take some photos to share...thanks!

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (41700)

• United States

1 Dec

Do you have any of the ornaments your mom had?

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (80686)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

30 Nov

As long as the Christmas tree makes you happy and brings back memories, I couldn't afford to bring back my Christmas ornaments from Latvia, Money was tight and so a gave everything to my stepdaughter. There were even ornaments from my childhood. You know what she did with everything I left with her? Put it all in a rented garage and there is all is still seven years later, Had I known I might have figured out how to transport at least a bunch more of stuff to make myself happy,

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (80686)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

1 Dec

@1creekgirl nope no way if she hasn't opened that garage in all these years there is no way she will do it if I just ask for some stuff, I have decided it is a lost cause,

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (41700)

• United States

2 Dec

@RasmaSandra Aw, that's sad.

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (41700)

• United States

1 Dec

I'm sorry you had to leave your special things. Is there any way you could get a few of them?