We opted to have the small tree again this year – FB is very curious, and into everything and I felt it was better for all of us to keep the living room as toddler friendly as possible.
I love having the mixture of decorations from both my childhood and W’s:
- - the candle figures on the left of the tree are ones that I’ve grown up with
- - the rabbit was on granny’s tree and was my uncles when he was little
- - the santa next to the rabbit was occasionally on the top of the tree when I was small
- - the smaller santa is from W’s mum
- - the winter figures on the right of the tree W grew up with
The tree itself is one that my mum got for me when I was 20 and couldn’t get time off from my retail job to come home for christmas. Oooh and the angel at the top is also a family decoration from W’s side.
A lovely mixture.
(And the hippo card on the far right was designed and illustrated by W’s dad. We have a collection of them. :)
More tomorrow…
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Lovely tree! For Laurie we had a “just with one finger” rule for touching the ornaments which seemed to work quite well – this is also now the rule for things in shops!
That’s a really good idea for when FB is a bit bigger. (also – Cirrus! VERY EXCITING!)
Beautiful, I love old ornaments. We have several from grandparents, great grandparents, even great,great grandparents. I love looking at them and explaining where they come from to the children.
It’s a part of christmas i think I love most of all – bringing out all of the things that have come before and mixing them into our lives today. :)
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