More Holiday Musings

Finally, I pulled the Christmas decorations out of the boxes.

I love opening those boxes, finding inside things I haven't seen in a year, or in this case two years.  I find my favorites that I've been collecting over the years, some since childhood.

Out of the box I pull not just ornaments, but memories.

I find things I forgot I had.  The surprises as I go through the boxes are like, well, Christmas!

When I started I really only intended to put out a few things, because frankly my inner Scrooge was thinking ahead to the trouble of putting it all away again.

I haven't gone to any great trouble to decorate since  the kids left home.  I've been under the impression that without kids in the house there was just no reason.  That was Scrooge talking again.

All these years later and I still suffer from empty nest when I pull out the ornaments from my babies' first Christmases.  Things always get a little blurry from the teary eyes.  I have to admit that I hesitate to bring these things out because they remind me that my kids are scattered all over the place and not in my house, under my Christmas tree.

But somewhere in those boxes this year, I found my own inner child who chased away the Scrooge.  I realized that just because there are no little children here, that doesn't mean the adults can't enjoy some holiday magic.

I hope you are finding lots of holiday magic this year too, no matter who or what you have under your tree:)