I've had a busy couple of days (you know, cleaning, cooking, digging out the ornaments, etc,) but it was all worth it. Yesterday evening three of my grandchildren, two of their friends and my unexpectedly visiting niece and her husband all gathered at my apartment to decorate my Christmas tree. Since my grands are scattered and almost grown I don't get them all together very often.
I unashamedly bribed them with a bean soup supper and sent the leftovers home with them.
The top picture shows the tree assembled and waiting. That's what took a lot of my time. This is not a pre-lit, flip it open tree, but the old style, insert one branch at a time, obviously artificial, but I've had this tree so long that it has a real sentimental attachment. We bought this tree when we moved back to Fort Wayne from Ohio in 1982. It actually has held up pretty well, of course it's only out of the box for one month of the year.
And here it is, decorated. They hung all of my ornaments on it, and it is beautiful to me. The best part of the evening was hearing the cousins and friends talking and laughing and spending time with each other, which was my plan all along. Ho, ho, ho.
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