Wednesday, December 25, 2019
It is Christmas morning and this year I am up and waiting for my seven-year-old, Mika, to awaken for the day. My being up before Mika is a rare occurrence on Christmas Day. Usually Mika wakes up early and needs to wait for me to be gotten out of bed before she unwraps her presents. Mika usually runs to my bedroom to tell me excitedly Santa has come and describes to me everything she has seen. This year I get to see the expression on Mika’s face when she looks under the tree.
We were late putting up our Christmas tree this year. Apparently, my son thinks he can have his own life and he was unable to come the weekend before last to put together my Christmas tree and hang the tree lights, so he came this past Sunday to do it. Mika decorated the tree last night. I did not see the decorated tree until this morning because Mika did not start decorating until after I had already been put in my bed.
Mika was very excited when she came across an ornament with a photo on it last night and brought it to my room. “Is this Megan?” she asked me. I told Mika it was and asked her if she was going to put it on the tree. Mika got a giant smile on her face, yelled yes, and ran back to the tree to hang the ornament. Her joy at seeing her sister’s face on an ornament got me thinking (never a good thing).
Yearly photo ornaments would have been a wonderful holiday tradition if I had thought about it before now. I could create age 1 - 18 sets for my two older children when I reach phase two of my decluttering project and start sorting photos. I do birthday photos for each of my children until they turn 18 and could pull those photos out for this purpose. I am missing the set from when my son turned five or six because I threw them out of the window of a moving car during an argument in my less laid-back years (Oh, the stories my significant other could tell).
I think yearly photo ornaments should be a life-time holiday tradition. If I had thought about this before last night, I could have taken a snapshot of my older children and their dad and me each year before Christmas and made an ornament for each of us. It would be so wonderful to have a tree with more than 100 (If I started when my son was born) family photos. What a loving legacy to leave your children.
The smile on Mika’s face this morning was amazing! Mika came downstairs, stopped at my computer to give me a good-morning hug, walked toward the Christmas tree, and turned back toward me, her face alight. Mika started her happy dance and yelled, “Santa came!” I rolled toward the tree and showed Mika she did not do a very good job of putting the ornament boxes back in the storage bucket last night. As Mika put all the boxes back in the bucket, I told her it was a good thing Santa had magic to get around her mess.
Mika received way more presents than any one child needs. We had gotten her three books, two CDs, a big Play-Doh set, and five LEGO sets. On Monday, one of her dad’s coworkers gave him six more very nice toys for Mika. Unwrapping all those toys took a while this morning and she loved all of them. She got the big LEGO classics set, something called Num-noms, a Frozen blanket craft set, a Razor scooter, and more from her dad’s coworker. So much for downsizing. Mika does have a Razor scooter I bought at a yard sale this Fall for her, so she plans to regift the new scooter to a friend, but I do not think I can pry any of the other gifts away from her.
My piece of advice to you is to start photo ornaments as a holiday tradition this coming year even if you do not celebrate Christmas. You could create a magnet wall in your house, pick any day of the year for photos (I like November 20th), get magnetic photo sleeves from Amazon or Etsy, and add more photos every year.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
It is Christmas morning and this year I am up and waiting for my seven-year-old, Mika, to awaken for the day. My being up before Mika is a rare occurrence on Christmas Day. Usually Mika wakes up early and needs to wait for me to be gotten out of bed before she unwraps her presents. Mika usually runs to my bedroom to tell me excitedly Santa has come and describes to me everything she has seen. This year I get to see the expression on Mika’s face when she looks under the tree.
We were late putting up our Christmas tree this year. Apparently, my son thinks he can have his own life and he was unable to come the weekend before last to put together my Christmas tree and hang the tree lights, so he came this past Sunday to do it. Mika decorated the tree last night. I did not see the decorated tree until this morning because Mika did not start decorating until after I had already been put in my bed.
Mika was very excited when she came across an ornament with a photo on it last night and brought it to my room. “Is this Megan?” she asked me. I told Mika it was and asked her if she was going to put it on the tree. Mika got a giant smile on her face, yelled yes, and ran back to the tree to hang the ornament. Her joy at seeing her sister’s face on an ornament got me thinking (never a good thing).
Yearly photo ornaments would have been a wonderful holiday tradition if I had thought about it before now. I could create age 1 - 18 sets for my two older children when I reach phase two of my decluttering project and start sorting photos. I do birthday photos for each of my children until they turn 18 and could pull those photos out for this purpose. I am missing the set from when my son turned five or six because I threw them out of the window of a moving car during an argument in my less laid-back years (Oh, the stories my significant other could tell).
I think yearly photo ornaments should be a life-time holiday tradition. If I had thought about this before last night, I could have taken a snapshot of my older children and their dad and me each year before Christmas and made an ornament for each of us. It would be so wonderful to have a tree with more than 100 (If I started when my son was born) family photos. What a loving legacy to leave your children.
The smile on Mika’s face this morning was amazing! Mika came downstairs, stopped at my computer to give me a good-morning hug, walked toward the Christmas tree, and turned back toward me, her face alight. Mika started her happy dance and yelled, “Santa came!” I rolled toward the tree and showed Mika she did not do a very good job of putting the ornament boxes back in the storage bucket last night. As Mika put all the boxes back in the bucket, I told her it was a good thing Santa had magic to get around her mess.
Mika received way more presents than any one child needs. We had gotten her three books, two CDs, a big Play-Doh set, and five LEGO sets. On Monday, one of her dad’s coworkers gave him six more very nice toys for Mika. Unwrapping all those toys took a while this morning and she loved all of them. She got the big LEGO classics set, something called Num-noms, a Frozen blanket craft set, a Razor scooter, and more from her dad’s coworker. So much for downsizing. Mika does have a Razor scooter I bought at a yard sale this Fall for her, so she plans to regift the new scooter to a friend, but I do not think I can pry any of the other gifts away from her.
My piece of advice to you is to start photo ornaments as a holiday tradition this coming year even if you do not celebrate Christmas. You could create a magnet wall in your house, pick any day of the year for photos (I like November 20th), get magnetic photo sleeves from Amazon or Etsy, and add more photos every year.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.