Christmas Decorations... Growing Up

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My Christmas tree is already decorated. This is the first year that I've had a tree in too many years to count. I have plenty of decorations to choose from, but I chose the Santa Gnomes / Wizards / Moons that belonged to my mother. I started to think about the decorations I could remember having over the years. My mom had a green tree for many years until we moved into another place and she bought a white tree. We had a singing wreath with lights that followed the melody of the song. One year my mom crocheted clothes for three sets of Mr. and Mrs. Clause dolls. One she kept for us, one she gave to my grandparents and I believe she gave another to my aunt (her sister). I have ornaments that have pictures of me as a little girl. Those stay hanging from a shelf year round. There's another cross stitch ornament with my brother's name on it that he got / made when he was ten years old. There's the standard reindeer made out of a clothes pin... So many decorations I remember and some that I've forgotten over the years. We had mangers at my grandparents house, and a snowy scene that was placed on the mantel and in front of the fireplace. My brother used to be the one in charge of decorating the tree at my grandparents house, and I would help in that way that all little sister's help which means I didn't help much at all. Years went by where we didn't decorate at all. I've helped decorate trees at a friend's house, at my ex mother in law's house, but it's been years since I've decorated my own Christmas Tree. I'll take a picture of it and add it to a later post, I think it's a little too early to be showing the Xmas decor off after all..