It is our tradition that, on the first day of Advent, we put up the Christmas tree. We have just spent several hectic hours doing this and what fun!
We insist that this is a family event. Christmas music playing on the CD.
DH gets the boxes from the roof. Then we unwrap and unwrap-each one greeted as if it is an old friend, and indeed some of them are very old.
The tree has a pair of baby shoes from DD and DS and we always have fun thinking of them once being THAT small! There are the ones DD made in Brownies, and the ones we made together with cookie cutters. There are the slightly munted and the very special.
Collections of angels, musical instruments, Father Christmases (no Santa here!) , stars, nativities, etc. Some of them I have made special trips to find (Rick's place in the blue mountains!) and lots were found in op shops.
There is lots of laughter and good natured ribbing -especially of me and my Christmas collection.
Taking pride of place this year my home-made Christmas Tree skirt and the Angel quilt I made recently (see earlier blogs).
Some people get stressed at Christmas, and some people are lonely and some are struggling with old hurts and new losses. I hope that they can find some joy in the simple things and the old traditions.
1 comment:
Your christmas tree tradition sounds beautiful - we try to create a similar atmosphere (and ignore the stressful bits!)
Your blog looks great, will investigate more...! Found link on ALS - (I am 'mountainmum' there)and live 1 minute away from the gorgeous 'Rick's place' !
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