There are only six more days until Christmas. When I was a kid, we counted down the days until Christmas on an advent calendar my mom had sewed. We got a small candy cane each day until Christmas, except for my birthday, when I got a large candy cane. Today, this same advent calendar is hanging up in our condo.
Christmas is filled with these sorts of traditions, and I think our Christmas decorations to a large degree help to tell the story of our lives. In our house we've got the Christmas tree we bought together last year, and on that tree hangs ornaments that I received as gifts from my grandparents 30 years ago, an ornament I made in kindergarten (complete with a hilarious picture), elephants, a small John Deere 9400T Series Tractor, ornaments Liv made at a pottery painting night with the girls, a gift box with pictures of our niece and nephew and their cousin Sophie, the US Senate Christmas ornament from 1997. Hanging nearby is a star made of sea shells. Sitting on the mantle is a nativity scene. Sitting on a nearby table is an ornament Liv painted for 2008 - our first Christmas together.
And what a wonderful Christmas season it is.
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