Now that I’m married, it’s been great fun to combine Drew and I’s collection of Christmas ornaments.
Like I mentioned before, we have quite an odd assortment. Nothing really matches, and that’s okay.
Drew doesn’t have the same emotional attachment to his ornaments that I do, but he has several from his childhood that I love to see next to mine. When we were decorating our first Christmas tree together, I was tickled to find that he had a handmade Rudolph ornament made from clothespins. I had made one in Kindergarden and had kept mine all these years. Appropriately enough, his is huge compared to mine. It makes me smile every year when I break them out and place them on the tree next to each other.
For whatever reason, the little handmade reindeer that I crafted when I was five has become one of my treasured ornaments. Maybe because it’s so cute or simply because I was so proud of what I made at a young age (of course, my teacher was probably the one who put the majority of it together). Whatever the reason, when I was growing up, it was always the first ornament I grabbed to put on the tree. When it came time to take it down, I always lovingly wrapped it in tissue paper and gently placed it back in storage.
So when Drew unwrapped his giant reindeer, I was elated. We nestled them next to each other on the tree, his big nosed Rudolph towering over mine. I don’t know how old he was when he made his, or if he even made it himself, but I love them snuggling next to each other on the tree. They remind me of us. 🙂
And they’re usually the first ornaments I hang each year.