Every Monday we have Family Night; a wonderful institution we have practiced since the beginning of our marriage so it was in place before any of our children arrived. It’s part of the glue of family life for us and has been a huge blessing to us with all that pulls our family in different directions these days. Everyone contributes to the evening right down to the very youngest. After going over the weekly calendar we sang a Christmas song in a round dividing into three groups to help hold parts, Nathan found the Baby Jesus in the Nativity as we retold that story with all of its little characters, of course there were treats; brownies that Kaitlyn made, and most importantly we had the opportunity to take the evening and decorate our Christmas tree as a family. We enjoyed placing our eclectic collection up on the tree and recalling memories and times and people from each one as we placed our most fragile ornaments up top and tried to fill the bottom out with soft un-breakable ornaments. Then we added a little excitement as two new participants to Christmas entered the room; our two newest members of the family.
This is my largest tree ornament; she didn’t want to be forgotten about and must have heard that I have a cat theme going on with the ornaments that I cherish in my collection.
Kitty’s first Christmas and she knew just what to do when a tree appeared suddenly in the house. You can see the mischief in her eyes.
Although younger, Spooky climbed under the branches and curled up contentedly on the quilted tree skirt I made 15 years ago now as a R.S. project. This brought back tender memories of Samantha who always loved Christmas and could be found each December in this same spot. He is a good boy.
Perspective… And yes! She did make it to the top before we were done! Trying to pull her out in the midst of the tangle of light strings is a real trick when combined with claws.
Sweet boy heads in for a kiss! He always kisses our kittens and they usually kiss him back.
This idea did not go over so well at the park last month when he wanted to kiss someone’s dog that we met on a walk.
Reindeer Boy!
The tree is decorated; my little country angel goes on top last.
Five happy but tired children gather around the Christmas Tree.
My biggest ornament left the tree alone finally in favor of a warm spot on top of the heating vent.
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