In our family we get together to decorate the tree and listen to Carols. We have lots of decorations so the tree takes time to create.
Each year we go to the department stores in the city to each choose a decoration for the tree. We go around and around until we find ‘the one’ we each like. We head off home to add the new decorations to the tree. Every year we exclaim that we don’t need another decoration on the tree, but every year we can’t bear to end the pilgrimage to the stores for our new one. As each one of us leaves home Mum hands us all the decorations we have chosen through the years to start our Christmas tree in our own home.
As I missed posting last weeks’ favourite decoration so I hope nobody objects to me adding to this post as I wanted to share these with you.
When my grandmother passed, Dad found her small box of Christmas decorations and told us how he remembered buying a number of them for his mother when he was a child. We have a set of these gorgeous girls.
These decorations are very fragile and we all love them so much.
We have 2 birds from my grandmother and that started a family collection, each year we buy a bird to add to the tree.
The novelty Christmas lights are all that was left of the string that used to go on my grandmother’s tree. Mum took them to a friend to see how they could be framed and we love how he turned them into a beautiful memory for my Dad.
I wish everyone who has participated in Pink Saturday a happy and peaceful Christmas.
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