Every year of my little life, my mom purchased an ornament for me to signify something important that happened during the year. Some of my treasured ornaments are a crystal angel from tea at the Plaza Hotel, a Jim Shore caroling singer (music was a huge part of my life, so we have lots of singing angels), and Lenox ballet slippers from a few years ago during my stint as an adult ballet student.
I've carried over the tradition for Freddy and I.
Here's our tiny tree with 1/5 of our ornaments. We just don't have the room for a large tree to accommodate them all, so I tend to rotate them every couple of years. So yes, this does look like a tree with ornaments thrown all over the place. But every.single.one means something or came from someone special.
My ornament is a Fiesta 75th anniversary plate - a nod to my inherited dishes. (The large initial ornaments are Restoration Hardware a few years ago. We hang the new ornament next to our initial).
And I am seriously in love with Freddy's ornament.
In honor of his 30th birthday bucket list fulfilled wish to go skydiving, he now has a vintage 1930s little parachutist.
Isn't it the cutest??? We found him on Etsy.
Have fun decking your halls these last few days before Christmas!
2 comments:
How special! I love this.
our tree is the same way, every year I say I am going to color coordinate and make it look nice, but then I get thinking about what every ornament means, and who is belongs to, they are just to special
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