I finally figured out what I wanted to write about for my thirty days of blogging. In Thanksgiving there was a thing going around on my Facebook page about the ‘Thirty Days of Thankfulness’. Every day, people would post something they were thankful for. I didn’t participate in it, because I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have thirty days of things to be thankful for and I didn’t want to seem selfish for all the things I could think of.
However, Christmas is a time of not only selfishness, but selflessness, so I thought I’d put up my own ‘Thirty Days’ list. Here’s the first of the thirty.
Day One: On the first day of Christmas, I sat and looked at our little tree. The lights on it are blue. They’re not the traditional multicolored or white lights, but I think they’re pretty nonetheless. Considering what’s on our tree it makes sense for the lights to be a different color as well.
We have ornaments ranging from Disney characters to ones we had when we were children. The Disney ornaments were a gift from my parents, as it took them a while to order and collect them all. Disney has never made another set and I’m not sure if they ever will. The older ornaments are a sentimental thing, merely remembering our childhood.
There are also Barbie ornaments, Taz ornaments, the Three Stooges, and the Space Shuttle. The Barbies are for me, but I’m saddened as this is the last year Hallmark is making them so I’ll have to find something new. The Taz, Three Stooges, and Space Shuttle are all Hubby’s but I don’t mind. I have the majority of the ornaments on the tree as it is, so if he has his special ones, what does it matter?
We also have a few ornaments that have the date on them, as well as one Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’hara ornament. These are the characters from Gone with the Wind and we have them for a couple of reasons. One, and I think this might be the biggest, is that they reflect us so closely that it’s kind of scary. Scarlett is stuck up and pretentious, always wanting to get her way and always, always, striving for perfection. I can be like that sometimes, especially if it’s with something I enjoy a lot. Rhett is carefree but serious, a true gentleman at heart even if the exterior is a bit gruff.
There will always be fun ornaments on our tree. We’re both kids at heart and probably always will be. For example, we have a Catwoman ornament, new this year, as well as a Minion ornament (from the movie Despicable Me). Someday, we might have a second tree that we can put our black and white Christmas balls on with blue lights, but we’ll have to wait to get our black tree for that.
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