We receive one of these collector silver bells with the year inscribed on it each Christmas from M’s parents. We have one for each year we’ve been married starting with 2000, and as we unwrap them each December we are reminded just how long we’ve been living together, and also how many years since Y2K….
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favorite ornaments
I received this ornament back in grade school after seeing the Nutcracker for the first time at the opera house with my two best friends and our mothers. This was one of the eighteen ornaments that my mother gave me when I started my own tree in my first little apartment – one ornament that…
preview of what’s to come
The kids received these from a friend of mine yesterday. E was so excited when I gave them to her and immediately staked a claim on both. I tempered that excitement a bit when I told her that one was for her little sister, so she declared that she wanted the elephant for herself. I…