Every year it’s the same.
We cut down a tree, place it in the stand, position it in the living room, string the lights and add the ornaments.
Every year it’s different.
The tree changes shape and size depending on that year’s selection at the farm, and the ornaments have no specific place on the tree. We also add an ornament, new since the previous year, one that commemorates some event or season of life.
Our tree, it tells a story.
On it hangs a record of our lives, a timeline of a family.
Read the rest of this post at Putting on the New, where I write on the 12th of every month.
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