Come What May and Love It

Here we are a few days before Christmas. All the excitement is at a high. The children are more excited about what their gifts they are giving than what they are getting. I call that a mom's pay day. D commented the other day, "I have no Idea what I am getting because I can't remember anything I asked for." H is all excited about what he picked out for his sisters. L has a job of her own this year and is able to purchase the gifts with her own hard earned money. She has definatly given her gift giving a lot more thought. Me ... I am just greatful to have my husband, my heart, home for the holidays this year. Beyond having him home I do not need or want anything else. I hope this holiday season is full of memories.

So My newly wed dream of a Christmas tree was to have a different sets of colored decorations, so each year I could decide what color do I want this year? A blue tree or a red tree or a white ... you get the Idea. My Mom's tree was always a little country modge podge of different ornaments and I always wanted the store front tree. Then kids came along. little paper and pipe cleaner ornaments so my dream was to have a tree downstairs that they could decorate with their stuff, and one upstairs so it could be my perfectly coordinated color tree. Last night I finally realized, (yes I am a little slow, or thick headed, you pick)it is not about the color of the tree, but about the memories that have built around the tree. Through the years we have gotten ornaments that meant a lot to me. The first year Leif and I were married we got a special first year ornament. It has been on our tree for 19 years, from the little charlie brown tree in our first apartment to our 7 1/2 foot or taller tr