I’m participating in the
Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories.
Many thanks to Thomas MacEntee of Geneabloggers.com
for hosting this each year. It’s a lot
of fun, and it links the Genealogy/Family History community each year in such a
delightful, celebratory way. The
Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) gives you an opportunity to write
about and share your family’s holiday history 24 different ways during 24 days
in December! If you’d like to share in the fun, go to http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com/blog-prompts/
This is a great way to
record part of your personal history.
You may want to use these prompts with your Personal
Historian software, and you’ll be a step ahead in documenting your personal
history and preserving it for your posterity. I also enjoy scanning pictures
with my Flip-pal mobile
scanner. and storing the pictures in collections with my Heritage Collector
Suite software. Since Christmas is
coming, you may want to find these items under your tree this year.
Here’s TODAY’s prompt and my thoughts about it.
December 3 –
Christmas Tree Ornaments
Did your family have heirloom or cherished ornaments? Did you ever string popcorn and cranberries? Did your family or ancestors make Christmas ornaments?
Last Thursday, my mother-in-law, Liz Murphy, passed
away. Due to her passing, I remembered a
box of antique ornaments she gave us many years ago. I really wanted to know where we’d stored
these treasures. Funny, how they didn’t
seem so much like treasures…until she passed!
I had a strong desire to find them and use them this year.
In my early married years (about 40 years ago), I strung
cranberries and popcorn and made handmade ornaments (Santa Claus’ face on
toilet paper rolls, etc.) since, as young-married people, there was no money to
purchase ornaments. We struggled to even
buy a live tree
.
.
My mother’s influence toward excellence and elegance, led me
to buy beautiful ornaments of one or two colors for most of the rest of my
life. I loved turquoise ornaments (like
she had on our flocked Christmas trees when growing up. Mom liked to make her trees look like those
in department stores.) Three of my grandson’s
hung the ornaments this year. We have
gold and red balls, a beaded garland of red, gold, green and white, some gold
bows, some gold musical notes, a star and white lights.)
Decorating the tree is not one of MY favorite things to
do. (I love to decorate the rest of the
house.) Since my children are grown, I
now sit remembering the fun days of my children decorating the tree, and my
youngest daughter wearing the Christmas Tree skirt for the yearly “decorating the tree”
picture.
Ah, those were the days.
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