On the Fifth Day of Advent

 Something a bit different 

I was sat here after decorating the tree, looking through my books, wondering which one to recommend today when I realised  that I had just reviewed a beautiful story for the last couple of hours.


The tree you see here tells a story all of it's own. It is not dressed with colour matched baubles , changed on a whim when fashions change. This is a tree that has been dressed , and added to, each year by the children ( who are now 30 and 27) and each individual decoration has it's own little story about who made it, where we were when we bought it,or if it has an identical twin as they both wanted to have the same one. Every single one opened up memories whether it be images of my mum knitting choir boys and angels with my daughter, my son proudly putting his snowman on the tree that he had made at nursery or the beautiful handmade ones my daughter still makes each year..

So as you will have gathered today's story is not a book, it is the story of our family Christmas 🌲


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