O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
How loyal are your leaves/needles!
You're green not only
in the summertime,
No, also in winter when it snows.
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
How loyal are your leaves/needles!
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
You can please me very much!
How often has not at Christmastime
A tree like you given me such joy!
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree,
You can please me very much!
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
Your dress wants to
teach me something:
Your hope and durability
Provide comfort and strength
at any time.
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree,
That's what your dress should
teach me.
How loyal are your leaves/needles!
You're green not only
in the summertime,
No, also in winter when it snows.
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
How loyal are your leaves/needles!
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
You can please me very much!
How often has not at Christmastime
A tree like you given me such joy!
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree,
You can please me very much!
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
Your dress wants to
teach me something:
Your hope and durability
Provide comfort and strength
at any time.
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree,
That's what your dress should
teach me.
If you look at my Christmas tree, you will see years and
years of ornaments. They are sacred to the whole family, because they reflect
the years of growing up by my children. The tree, filled with hand made crafted
ornaments, pictures of them visiting Santa and even little slogans written on
craft paper or even brown paper bags fill the conical wonder with the sweet
smiling and warm memories of their youth. It is indeed sacred.
I am proud of that tree, I see my kids again as they once
were, and remember things from the past, especially around the holiday season,
the child singing or chanting or laughing and playing. The excitement of my
boys on Christmas morning and the joy that spreads throughout the house, it is
truly wonderful.
We do have a few ornaments up that reflect the commercial
world and what they think should be portrayed on a tree, but that isn’t Christmas
or the true spirit. The spirit lies in the magic of the children who populate
the holiday, the giggles and electricity as they see what Santa did.
We are careful to put up as much as the tree can hold of
those memories, but only enough that we can identify them and have them stand
out amidst the joyful arrangements that populate the tree. They act as
triggers, each and every one of those little handmade works of art, each photo
of them on the lap of Jolly old St. Nick, bearing the nostalgia of a certain
era.
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| MY LITTLE HOLIDAY BLESSING: DARBY SHEA! |
And now La Principessa will come, and add a whole new layer
of sacred memories, and the tree, although artificial: will never stop growing.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
GREAT HOLIDAY IDEAS!
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1 comment:
L.O.L....We do the same thing, all the kids ornaments, whether they are "ornaments", or just a paper they made, all don our tree . Pictures, bows, anything the children, grandchildren, family or friends contributed over the years, makes the most beautiful tree. That's what memories are made of. (and you know, we even have a "paper" star on top) !! Happy Holidays to you and all, Joseph, and enjoy that new little one coming! what a joy! (feel better Ellen).
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