One of the girls' favorite Christmas traditions is getting to pick out a new ornament each year. They tend to choose ornaments that reflect their interests or activities for the current year. Casey's have gone from frogs to soccer to photography. Cody's have gone from princesses to Rudolph.
I love having that history of their interests hanging on our tree each year, even more so this year as we hear our dear friends talk about losing every ornament they owned in a fire. They lost every keepsake and each child's hand-made ornaments. Our homeschool group rallied together and got them a tree and each family placed a special ornament on it so that they would not have a bare tree this year. It was a really neat idea.
This year Casey chose a silver picture frame with 2008 on it since she loves photography. Cody chose a Rudolph ornament that lights up, she absolutely loves it! It will be neat for them to have lots of ornaments to hang on their own trees at some point in the future, I may need to start buying doubles so that I can hang onto those treaured memories when that day comes!
We also made the wonderful smelling cinnamon ornaments last week, you can see how they turned out!
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