I decorated my tree yesterday..........................It makes me so happy!

[seasidebee]

It's about four feet tall. White lights. Various garlands: small felted balls, wooden cranberries, silver beaded. An assortment of handmade and vintage ornaments from blown glass/mercury glass (my father gave me a set of small vintage "feather tree" ornaments about 30 years ago) to gingerbread people and scandinavian pixies, to beeswax ornaments,

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[taylorj1037]

[tailofkasahara]

There is nothing better I will hear today that "I dripped ice-cream on a sitting president".

I heard Prince Andrew's 60th birthday party has been cancelled by the (very much alive) Queen. No ice cream for that drip!

[seasidebee]

All these famous men, celebrities, philanthropists, industry magnates, politicians, royals.......all trying to back peddle out of their association with Jeffrey Epstein. They are all a Royal Order of Doinks.

Hee hee. Momma canceled the party............hee hee hee hee.......

[imspatz]

How lovely. That reminds me of our Christmas tree stuff, full of things gifted and found, old and new, and a fun mix of everything.

We will put up our tree on the 24th, as it’s custom here, and leave it up until the new year. And as it’s a small one - three feet high maximum - it’s a bit too small for a color theme and will be full of all the love and memories the decorations bring.

[seasidebee]

People around here have been decorating the outside of their homes with lights again this year. It seems they'd stopped doing it. It's lovely to see. I think people just really need beauty wherever they can find it right now.

[imspatz]

The time when the first Christmas lights go up is always so magical. Everyone needs some beauty wherever they can now, that’s for sure.

[rosewilderlane]

I don't celebrate Christmas, but your tree sounds divine!

[seasidebee]

I enjoy it. Do you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanza, Yule, Eid, Duwali? Happy Holiday to you!

[rosewilderlane]

That's a great question! I celebrate Hanukkah, which this year happens to coincide with Christmas, so it will be a big season of joy! (It's always weird when the lunar calendar is way off from the solar and Hannukah falls right after Thanksgiving.)

Chag Chanukah sameach!! :)

[seasidebee]

I love Hanukkah!

My favorite auntie was Jewish. She married into our Catholic family when I was so young that I don't remember a time without her. When she died several years ago it was a devastating loss for all of us but I took it particularly hard. She enriched our family life immeasurably, because of who she was as a person, but she also introduced us/me to Jewish holidays and Jewish and/or Middle Eastern FOOD. For years our family celebrated both Christian and Jewish holidays. Hee hee. Best of both worlds. (God is God; it doesn't care what we celebrate and honor, by name or holiday, as long as we do, imho.) Her mother made, bar none, the BEST traditional chicken soup w/matzo balls I have ever had, not to mention her homemade gefilte fish. I have a hard time eating that jarred gefilte fish. It just isn't the same. I should learn how to make it.

Happy Hanukkah, Rose!