Did you have a great Thanksgiving? We definitely did! These past few months have been quite a ride. Our family survived a kitchen remodel, we’ve purged every room in our house and I seriously wondered how in the wide-world-of-sports we accumulated so much junk! Through it all, I’ve had some wonderful opportunities to speak to women’s groups, MOPS groups, and ministry events.
Did I mention that my laptop decided to kick the bucket? While I work on getting this new one up and running, please enjoy one of my favorite Christmas posts. When we decorated our Christmas tree this weekend, Samuel couldn’t wait to hang his special ornament, and laughed all the way to it’s ceremonious spot on the tree!
It’s a tradition in our home that each child hangs their own special ornaments. The older you get, the more ornaments you have made and collected over the years. So, it is very important to our younger children that they have their own to hang too.
Samuel is our youngest. When it came time to hand him one of his special ornaments he savored the moment. Carefully he walked to the tree, not wanting to drop the treasure he gently carried. Turning it over in his hand he read aloud, “Baby’s 1st Christmas” He softly said, then immediately blurted out, “Hey Mom, this isn’t me!?”
He was right, and for seven years mommy has yet to print a teeny tiny picture to put in Samuel’s ornament. I tried to convince him, “Oh, honey…are you sure that isn’t you? It sure does look like you.” It looks nothing like him.
Am I the only one who has pictures of complete strangers adorned in ornaments on her tree? Am I the only mother trying to convince her blonde-haired green-eyed son that he used to be a Hispanic, brown-eyed baby? Am I the only ornament-felon at-large?
In case you happen to know who this darling little boy is in the picture ornament above, please let his family know he will be spending his seventh Christmas at our house.
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