O Tannenbaum

It feels a little bit more like Christmas now that the tree is up. We went Thursday night to pick out a real tree. While Alex opted to watch Beauty and the Beast, while the tree was going up, she did help out a bit with the decorations.

Decorating the tree can be so nostalgic. I am always excited to open my box of ornaments that I've collected over the years.  Every year my grandparents, hand made a wooden ornament for my sister and me. The clock just right of Alex's head in the first picture is my first ornament, from Christmas 1981.