I know Christmas is O V E R, but taking down the decorations reminded me of one more Christmas tradition I enjoy. I give my husband an ornament every year that is supposed to represent something significant that happened that year.
I began during our first year of marriage, 2005, with this blurry little wakeboarder. We fell in love on a wakeboarding trip during 2004 and were married in 2005. So I thought this was a good representation of the start of our lives together.
In 2006, I graduated from college, and my wonderful parents sent us on a trip to London and Paris.
In 2007, we had a baby girl.
And in 2008, we worked together through some tough times, that led us to rely much more heavily on faith.
We started the tradition with our daughter with two nativity ornaments her first year, since she was born close to Christmas. This year, she got a black cat wearing a Santa hat because she adores (attacks) our black cat with fervor.
It’s kind of fun to summarize an entire year with one store bought representation. Do you do anything similar? What object would best represent YOUR 2008?
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I love to get special ornaments as well.
Happy New Year!
ha ha adores=attacks
We don’t have any ornaments to summarize the year, but I love yours/ That’s a fun memory tradition, especially when you pull them out, year after year. My children decorated their own trees they made in their rooms with their special baby ornaments this year. If I were to buy an ornament to represent 2008, though, it would have to be the pen my husband bought me for Christmas, tied to a string. But I would hang it around my neck and not on the tree to remind me that writing happens in real life, not just on the keyboard.
Be sure to put your children’s names on the ornaments as you add children and the date. You would be suprised to think that you will not always remember each ornament and who it belongs to or what year it is for.
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