Setting up the Santa Train
Stringing Popcorn Garland
(of which Mary keeps eating it off of the tree)
Our nightly Jesse Tree
Building our Gingerbread House
The other tradition that was not captured on film was
Mommy crying as she unpacked the ornaments made by so many little hands
hung in so many different homes
and then
Mommy freaking out over swarms of little hands
grabbing for ornaments
to precariously perch on the tips of tree branches
only to come tumbling down again and again
and finding several of them in Mary's crib because they were her "babies"
and ornaments that brothers' hung in sisters' hair
and ear-peircing shrieking when they got tangled
Christmas
just wouldn't be Christmas without all my little helpers.
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