There's been some changes since then.
Life's funny. Sometime it seems like life moves slow. The busy work season of the year crawls, hot summers and cold winters seem to take forever to end, but then you turn around and it's ten years later...a decade has passed. It's a good thing we have kids because to them, ten years is half their lives (a little more, a little less...). Ten years ago I started attending writing symposiums and writing conventions as an attendant and participant.
Then years ago, our youngest was nine years old.
Fast forward a decade and our youngest is in trade school. Our next youngest is married, our next youngest/second oldest is helping create video games and getting paid for it, and our oldest is married and has become a father himself.
You look at our Christmas ornament and you see none of that.
But, that's what ornaments are, really...just snapshots of what life was like at the time. They're reminders of the life that is when they're first introduced, and what life has become as they age a year at a time...
Kind of like us.
We got a few new ornaments this year. They're not dated so they may just end up as one of those ambiguous decorations that we picked up one of those years, another in a long list of date-less ornaments we hang up each year. What we need are new ornaments that reflect the state-of-the-family, things like "Grandbaby's First Christmas," "Welcome To The Family, Son." You know, things like that.
Maybe that's why people sometimes get bigger and bigger trees as time goes on. Got to have a place for the new changes.
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