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We all survived our annual fights with a christmas tree again. How to get it home? Did that bastard grow on tge way home, cause its way too tall? How to make it stand upright and stay that way? How to untangle those damn lights? How to put them in the tree without getting wounded? How to get the cat to leave things alone? And if you have a partner: how to fix all this and still keep peace? Its a challenhing time of year!
My question means to let you smile a little. It is: what is your favorite christmas ornament and why? Do you want to share a pic please?We had a very ugly small christmas house with a light in it, because my eldest fell in love with it immediately in the store. He still lives lights. I cant show it, because i gave it to him whem he moved out to go to university. Did want to remember him of home in these dark days.
So i show you this little fellow. I bought him along with some other wooden ornaments in a scandinavian christmas store. It was my first christmas after i had moved out of my parents’ home. ( dont dare to think how many years ago that must have been now) and i had a very small little christmas tree in my student room. So this guy reminds me of gaining my personal freedom, while still maintaining some family traditions.My daughter and I had a successful day hunting down this tree. We’ve probably been going to this particular tree farm for most of her life. The lights are easy to untangle as each string is coiled and placed in an individual bag until next Christmas. My favorite ornament is the first hallmark Star Trek ornament of the Enterprise. https://abfheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/rtMedia/users/3213/2025/12/IMG_9146-800×1209.jpeg?1765525808
When I was a child we never had a “real” Xmas tree. We had evergreen trees outside our farmhouse that my dad and older brother put lights on. Dad on the tractor and my brother up in the loader bucket.
In our house we would always find the largest tumbleweed we could find. Bring it inside. Then my older sisters would mix up some type of soap, they would blob it on the tumbleweed and it gave it the appearance of snow. Then some bulbs and strings of Xmas type decorations. No light bulbs, back then they did not make the miniature ones like they have now.
But that was our indoor tree, for as long as I can remember.
I guess this is a little off-topic, since it isn’t about an ornament, but I love to listen to the Charlie brown theme. I think it goes way back to childhood, when I’d watch the Charlie brown Christmas show every year. Then, when I got my very first job at 16 (working at JCPenney at the mall), I’d hear it over and over all day long at the store through the Christmas shopping season. To me, the piano seems so upbeat and festive, and it always makes me happy and smile whenever i hear it. Take a listen and see if it doesn’t make you smile…
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