now it's beginning to look like Christmas

while my tree was up the day after Thanksgiving it sat undecorated until yesterday afternoon-hey give me a break I am a busy woman. I bought a new tree this year a pre-lit one to save me time except at home & out of the box it is a crappy tree so crappy I thought about using our very old tree & spending an hour detangling lights but we carried on & just used the not very heavy ornaments. I will be hitting the post-Christmas sales in search of a decent fake tree. For me one of the things that makes the holiday so very special is the ornaments. Growing up each year each member of the family got a new ornament then when I married I got several boxes full of a various assortment of my ornaments as well as other family stuff. Our first Christmas I dragged the Grinch David out to pick out his very own ornament for that year and after that I just started picking something for him, once C got to the point of choosing his own I have him pick something out to give David as a gift each year. It gives me great joy to look at our tree and see the bejeweled fan that was picked out for me when I was just a toddler (maybe an infant I just know it is near ancient) next to the snowman C made in daycare when he was only 3. It makes me feel happy and closer to my family and at the the same time a little sad that I won't be able to see them for the holidays this year.