Everywhere else the prices of christmas trees seem to go up and up, but at the nursery here in our little village we still only pay the unbelievable price of just € 9.00. (They grow them nearby, so don’t have to purchase them themselves, no transportation cost…)
I like to decorate it the same way every year again. I like it, to have those memories going trough my hands…
The stars made of straw that I bought in a small shop with Swedish handcrafts in Louvain when I was a student (and some more at bought later at the well-known blue-and-yellow Swedish furniture-giant.
The wooden puppets my parents gave me when they came back from a journey to Moscow and St.Petersburg.
The figurines my mother-in-law gave me…
And I realize our son is growing older… ‘Fourteen going on fifteen’, and for the first year since very, very long, he didn’t feel like helping me decorating, sitting on the bench: ‘Mum, I feel so tired after a week of school-tests’!
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rainymountain wrote:
Your tree is enough to make me shake my lazy bones and get myself a tree.
Posted on 17 Dec 11 (over 1 year ago)
Armorel wrote:
What a lovely tree :-) It’s special when you have so many memories contained in the decorations.
We bought a small 3ft tall pot-grown Blue Spruce last December and it’s coming up for its second Christmas now. We’ve moved it from the garden into the greenhouse and I’ve picked off as many willow leaves as I can (it was underneath the contorted willow by my greenhouse for the summer). We probably won’t bring it into the house until midweek because we have friends coming for High Tea on Thursday. Our autistic daughter, Joy, loves Christmas and spends hours decorating her tree in her bedroom, the tree in our flat downstairs and the tree in the big room upstairs. I try not to keep the Blue Spruce indoors for too long because we have a huge blazing fire in the fireplace for most of Christmas and New Year which means it can get very hot in there. I put it in the farthest corner next to the big windows where it is a bit cooler.
Commiserations to your school-test-exhausted teenager ;-)
Posted on 17 Dec 11 (over 1 year ago)
flowerweaver wrote:
Cheerful!
Posted on 17 Dec 11 (over 1 year ago)
LillyPilly wrote:
Beautiful tree, and all those memories. Thank you for sharing.
I’m with you on not following fashion for the Christmas tree. The biggest loss in the last move was two boxes of ornaments, some from my grandmother and well over a hundred years old. Probably why I haven’t felt like decorating. Mum is most upset about the ornaments I made as a child. She was still putting them up and I was always trying to hide them around the back of the tree when she wasn’t looking! Must be time to make some new memories.
Posted on 31 Dec 11 (over 1 year ago)
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