Today we decorated our tree for Yule. Rob always get the tree together. (2 have allergies to real trees so we are a family who always use artificials) Kirsty always puts on the lights. Then the kids and I decorate. Every year the kids get an ornament from my mom. I love watching their faces when they open them. I love listening to them chatter about their memories as they hang ones from previous years. We do not have a designer tree. I did, long long ago. But as our family grew, the focus of the tree changed. It was not a testimony to my holiday decorating prowess. It was a repository of our collective experiences, memories and dreams. I love this, but I was also thinking today that I wonder what our tree will be like in 10 years or so? The kids will have fledged and likely will take their ornament collections with them, hopefully to start new traditions in their own households. Our tree will be needing to be re-thought and re-imagined. It is hard to picture what that could be. But for now, our star shines brightly and our house rings with laughter and all ready the thrum of anticipation that the holidays bring.
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