Remember when…

…I was in elementary school and the Christmas Tree fell on me before school…twice???!!! Dad finally put a nail in the ceiling and tied fishing wire to the nail and the tree to hold it up. That nail was still there when I got married and moved out. LOL!

…We had the Christmas Tree that looked exactly like a bush and nothing like a Christmas Tree? I know some families have very sweet traditions of purchasing the ugliest tree they can find and then dressing it up beautifully to represent what Jesus has done for us. Precious tradition but that year convinced my family that some trees are hopeless and cannot be made over:).

…this one was YEARS ago…

Grammy decided to create a Christmas heirloom. She gathered jewelry from all family members willing to donate. She then took a beautiful piece of burgandy velvet and framed it. With the jewelry, she created a beautiful Christmas Tree and outlined with a strand of costume pearls. It was (and is) beautiful. We all love to look at it each year and remember the pieces of jewelry that we contributed. Not too long after Grammy had made this heirloom though, her very expensive strand of pearls turned up missing. Uh Oh! Yep!!! She had accidentally used the REAL one’s for her Holiday Tree. This heirloom is now truly a treasure! LOL!

…Grandpa and Grandma Zimmermann used to hang wrapped candy bars on their tree. I loved that! They also hung lit candles for awhile. Imagine what a fire hazard!!!!

…when mom would let us make strands of pyracantha berry garlands for the tree with a needle and thread? That was fun.

…the arguments over a toy tree or a pretty tree? (Kid ornaments or Mommy ornaments). In my house we have TWO trees to settle this issue. Kid ornaments go on the fiber optic tree and I pretty up the tree that Grammy gave me.

…the Christmas Tree’s that stayed on the back porch until July! LOL!!! Jim and I are into “fake” trees now!