O Tannenbaum.....
Dec. 22nd, 2002 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishWell, the tree is somewhat decorated. The few glass ornaments are up near the top, and the boys put on all the wooden and fairly non-breakable ornaments on the bottom. Yesterday morning, we put different colored candy canes on it - which in hindsight may have been a mistake. They keep getting removed and I know I'm going to find them all over the house.
I love going through all the old Christmas ornaments - a few we made when we were kids, ones that were given to us by old friends, the ones my mom bought, my grandmother's blue glass ball - hmm, I haven't seen that one yet this year, where is it? In the boxes are old Christmas cards my brothers and I made in elementary school, and a cardboard star covered with glitter, with an angel face made from half a walnut shell. It used to have yarn hair, but it fell off years ago. Never mind - we still keep it as a much beloved memento of years past.
We didn't put all the lights on the tree and the kids are fascinated by them so I've got the take the extras out to the garage. Probably a bit late to put any outside, but I did have some in the kitchen window, along with the flashing star of my Grandmother's - it used to be sparkly off-white with plastic gems for the light to shine through. Now it's the color of old ivory and the gems are faded somewhat - it probably won't be too long before I'll have to discard it as a fire hazard. I went outside to see how it looked - it really makes all the cat noseprints on the window stand out. :p
Guess I need to wash the windows, too.
I love going through all the old Christmas ornaments - a few we made when we were kids, ones that were given to us by old friends, the ones my mom bought, my grandmother's blue glass ball - hmm, I haven't seen that one yet this year, where is it? In the boxes are old Christmas cards my brothers and I made in elementary school, and a cardboard star covered with glitter, with an angel face made from half a walnut shell. It used to have yarn hair, but it fell off years ago. Never mind - we still keep it as a much beloved memento of years past.
We didn't put all the lights on the tree and the kids are fascinated by them so I've got the take the extras out to the garage. Probably a bit late to put any outside, but I did have some in the kitchen window, along with the flashing star of my Grandmother's - it used to be sparkly off-white with plastic gems for the light to shine through. Now it's the color of old ivory and the gems are faded somewhat - it probably won't be too long before I'll have to discard it as a fire hazard. I went outside to see how it looked - it really makes all the cat noseprints on the window stand out. :p
Guess I need to wash the windows, too.
