Hanging ornaments on tree.
16yo son has severe menstrual cramps.
You want to let me do this?
I wanted to help.
How about you take some Pamprin, hang your ornament, and I hang everything else including the ones with your Dead Name that (dead) grandmom gave you.
"Thanks."
My hope for everyone who does a #Christmas tree is to be so well-loved and live such a life that when time comes to decorate the tree you have to assign ornaments to next year, because there are so many gifted with love.
Decorating the tree is like a trip into the past every year.
I do appreciate that some households put up new decorations every year. I am glad it works for them.
That's not how my family has worked, though.
Every ornament I pull out of the box has a memory of a time attached to it.
Once a year I get to spin through time over the course of an hour that feels like 50 years.
Some were shit.
Some were wonderful.
They made me.
#Christmas
#Ornaments
#Tree
@XaoslordErie
I had to get rid of real trees in I think 2012 when we finally realized that the mold spores were giving 16 a sinus infection every year.
When my grandmom was a child the tree had actual, tiny candles on it, and her hair caught fire. My ggpop banned candles until electric lights came around.
@XaoslordErie
I'm atheist AF.
I need the lights and colors.
@XaoslordErie
There's a good reason that festivals involving lights and colors happen in the darkest parts of the year.
@Shelter I struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder on top of Bipolar Type 2, so yeah, I understand the importance. I just have to admire from a distance, that's all.
@Shelter understood. As a non-theist myself, I get it. As to the lights, that also changed for me, personally, when diabetic neuropathy set in and my vision began to change, so I can't really do too much of that any more. That said, I do have an appreciation for the work my neighbors put into theirs. Very pretty.
@Shelter I haven't had a real tree now in many years, but then, I also no longer decorate for Xmess. It's not so much that it's not worth it for only me, but because my beliefs have changed a great deal since then.