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| Here are the ornaments we've acquired over four years. Left hand side from R; right hand side from me. |
This is our own little Christmas tradition: finding that perfect Christmas tree, taking it home and then turning the music on for some nostalgic Christmas songs while unboxing the ornaments, the glittered balls, the garlands and the lights we've accumulated over the last Christmases we've spent in Dublin. Then we'll take out the few ornaments, arrange them chronologically, make a few recollections of when we bought them, and then place them in that nook of the tree where they can be admired the most. The next few days, R and I will buy two new ornaments, one from each, to hang in our tree.
This is the fourth year we've done this tradition. This time though, because of the baby and the weather situation, only R went to the tree market taking home with him a nearly 6-foot, smelled-so-good pine tree. I took care of decorating the tree whilst the teething baby demanded to be carried. After a few hours of alternating the baby between our arms, we had the tree ready for its first lighting.
I'm glad we established this tradition. I'm all the more grateful we have afforded a real Christmas tree four years in a row now. There was a year, our first Christmas as a married couple, when the only decor we could afford to adorn our home with was this DIY advent calendar.
There's a joy in keeping a Christmas tradition. It is something we want Z to grow up doing with us come Christmas time. Years from now, this little baby of ours will grow up discovering the world and the wonders of Christmas. I want him to have early memories of experiencing the magic and twinkle and warmth and goodness of Christmas firsthand---with his dad and I.
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| The lighting of our fourth real Christmas tree and our first with Zeya. |
There's a joy in keeping a Christmas tradition. It is something we want Z to grow up doing with us come Christmas time. Years from now, this little baby of ours will grow up discovering the world and the wonders of Christmas. I want him to have early memories of experiencing the magic and twinkle and warmth and goodness of Christmas firsthand---with his dad and I.
I'm already looking forward to the next Christmases in our lives, to the next Christmas tree hunting and decorating. :)
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Now here are the ornaments in the tree.
2013
2014
2015
2016
The reason I chose a little bear this year: :)
And here's our tree in all its glory:
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