The Christmas season is officially here in my house. I started decorating a week ago and just finished on Thursday. It was a lot of work, but I love Christmas! I am thrilled to have everything up, the Christmas music playing and to have NO SNOW! My decorations aren't anything spectacular or extravagant, they just help us here in our home, to feel the "reason for the season" and to enjoy the time we are together with our family. We have 3 trees in our house, one in the living room, one in our dining room, and one in the family room downstairs. The one in the family room is one that the kids all help to decorate, and it is by far my favorite to see go up. Over the many years that we have had children in our home (22 years now), we have made Christmas ornaments as a family off and on. We have also received handmade Christmas ornaments for gifts from our children over the years. We use to just ADD them to the other ornaments that we put on the tree, but now we have enough to decorate an entire tree with. I love to watch the kids pull the ornaments out of the box and see their faces as they remember the times that they made them for us, then to watch their eyes sparkle as they hang them up on the tree. Its one of my favorite things about Christmas. In the worlds eyes this tree might not be considered special, but in my eyes, its beautiful!
