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."
I cannot be trusted with action figures.
#Christmas
#Ornament
#LivesInTheOrnamentBox
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
@Shelter Xmess with my grandparents worked a lot like that. Every year, those old glass ornaments were trotted out - birds, elves, Santas, etc ... and back then, they had the old glass bulbs that would easily burn your house down and certainly burn the hell out of your hands once they got hot enough. Dangerous but fun. There were glittery deep red wall decorations like bells and candycanes ... I still remember all those things and a real 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.