What kind of Christmas tree do you put up in your house (if you put a Christmas tree up at all)?
Are you a Martha Stewart, with every color-coordinated ornament carefully and specifically placed?
Or does your tree contain a mish-mash of objects?
Perhaps your tree is filled with homemade items?
My tree tells a story.
Each year, as I carefully unwrap each ornament, I think about the history of that ornament.
Whose hands it rested in before mine?
Whose hands had carefully crafted such an item?
Whose tree had each piece hung on?
Some of my ornaments are very old and have been handed down through many generations. They have hung on many trees through the decades.
Some are from first Christmases.
Some were made especially for my tree, by the young and old and in-between.
Some of these were made by friends and family no longer with us.
Some hung on my childhood tree and some were picked out especially for my tree.
My tree tells a story.
And for one brief period of time, all of the pieces of my story hang beautifully in my living room.
Merry Christmas everyone!
