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I wonder what she is thinking....
This is where i find her during the Christmas season. Often just staring at the tree sometimes reaching out to touch an ornament or to peak from a different angle a few times I have found her asleep in front of the tree. She loves the lights especially at night. So do i, there is such calm about a room filled with the soft glow of the lights from the tree.

 She is the latest in a long line of children who are drawn to that space, that tree, who love to hear  the stories that go with the ornaments hanging on the tree.  She will point at one and ask where did it come from? Who did it come from? Why did you buy it.  As I answer her questions it is like a little revisit to the past for me..... That one we bought when we traveled to Florida.  This one aunt linette sent us when she lived on Whidbey Island.  That's buttercup the kitty that once lived in our home.  One will always ask which was the first ornament you bought and I will point to a little yellow sock doll. "Did you really have 5 ornaments on the tree the first year you were married?" They ask with wonder.  They've heard this story many times.  Now they tell the stories. Remember we bought this little mermaid when yahaira thought she was a mermaid the year she was two? We picked this train because Dad loves trains.  And on and on the stories go.

When we decorated that first tree over 30 years ago I could have filled in the spaces with a few sets of color matched bulbs but that wasn't the vision I had for our tree. I knew I wanted it to reflect us and our life.  So year by year that is exactly what happened as we added a few ornaments each year. Not in any particular hurry to fill the branches to make the tree full.  Instead just collecting moments and stories to be shared again and again.

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