I have never gone with a theme, as my sister use to. She went all out, she was not well, so I did the manual labor, and she was the sargent. Most years new she had a new theme, and it was always beautiful and creative.
I was the one looking for the one must have ornament year after year, just one or or two.
Married, 1976,
Babies first xmas, 1981, and 1982,
College: UW
and Evergreen State College,
cars, replicating our own. And then the sentimental ones,
hand and made school ornaments wrinkled and tattered.
pictures of pets,
hidious crafts my mom would make, with yarn that you just hate the first year and love every year after.
An artificial tree tolerates all those ornaments, I can bend a stem to show the front of every ornament, it really is so much easier to decorate.
With every year I have acquired a few more ornaments. really only one or two. You cannot be a young lady with a tree this full. A designer would shake her head and say, there is far too much S#%t on it. And she would be right. I would love a smaller tree, but how do I leave those ornaments up in the attic, how could it feel like xmas.
