I have enough…I really do, but I always like to check out what’s available each year. Sometimes I will pick up something cute and add it to a basket or wrapped package to give away, because my tree is already too full as it is.

Every year I share with you all what ornaments they have on the racks each year. I usually check out the ornaments from World market but this year we didn’t go to the bigger cities. We stayed close to home. These ornaments were at a Hobby Lobby about an hour away from us, not too far.

I make most of my ornaments, I really enjoy that, hobby stores are my favorite hang outs. It’s going to be a Christmas mostly of traditional type celebrations for our family, like an old fashioned Christmas. We have been doing it this way for years now. I like it that way.

Some of the things I’m looking forward to are Christmas cookies, driving around drinking hot Cocoa and looking at lights, seeing a Christmas parade this year, finding a good Christmas book to read, warm blankets and logs in the fire place, decorating the home, Christmas craft shows, Christmas movies, and shopping for stocking stuffers. Oh…and making a beautiful Christmas wreath for our door.

Okay, this next story could be triggering for some, not it’s intentions, just one of my Christmas stories from the past.

I remember one year our neighbor’s youngest son (who was in his 50’s) and her husband both passed away that year, she was in her nineties and still going strong with a great memory too. She would drive herself to the hairdresser every week to get her hair done, every Wednesday.

That Christmas I imagined must have been a really hard one for her as her son and husband were no longer with her. Her son was special needs and had lived with her his whole life. She told us she was not going to put up a Christmas tree that year, she didn’t have the energy.

So my husband and I surprised her with a tiny fiber optic tree that ran on batteries. I decorated it with little wrapped candies and we left it on her doorstep one early December morning. She knew exactly where it came from.

She showed up at our door with a little thank you card the next week. Told us that she put that little tree on her kitchen table and every night before she went to bed, all those tiny lights added a whole lot of cheer to her home and she needed that, just didn’t know it.

After that, for a few years…(she lived into her late nineties) she took out that tiny tree, added new batteries and it sat on her kitchen table bringing Christmas cheer each season. That first year she said she left that little tree out all year and when she would walk into her kitchen at night it made her happy seeing it there.

So…I guess what I am trying to write here is, is that even if you already have enough Christmas decor for yourselves, don’t forget the ones out there who maybe don’t. A tiny tree adds big cheer to any room. And it is so fun shopping for someone else as well, surprises are fun too. Happy shopping adventures everyone.

So what was my favorite ornament out of all these ornaments…the snowman of course. Such a cute little guy.

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