tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197449002011-04-21T13:36:00.491-07:00jannettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11913884884325658522noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744900.post-1134216518723891552005-12-10T03:44:00.000-08:002005-12-10T04:08:38.733-08:003 weekends to xmas...the tree is a perfect conical shape..the decorations are haphazard; many have a significance that would be lost to the casual observer..like the two polka dotted eggs which coincidentally came from sweden in 1980..our first xmas together as a married relationship..sometimes i think i am still so young as my thoughts about The Best Man in the World(TBMW) have not altered in all those years...true love..nah..just lucky that there was such a great person in this world and i found him...<br />i digress...<br />back to decorations on the tree which i might add had been chosen ritually these last 10 years from the scouts and after many years of lopsided, browned ended or totally mishapen trees TBMW has managed to spot a beauty in 2 seconds..have you worked out that TBMW is an abbreviation for the best man in the world...<br />so..the tree is in the living room and the decorations are in the box and where are the kids...one is playing music 100 kilometers away, the other is sleeping in a cold climate 10 000kilometers away and the baby has just borrowed the car to go on a road trip with some mates for the weekend...<br />the significance of decorating the tree is lost as nostalgia is not relevant in these younger adult years so we call in our neice who is very efficient and likes the haphardness of all the decorations acumulated from many years of homemade pre xmas activities..or from friends overseas...or from a store because it looked pretty...the neice has already decorated her tree and prefers symetrical layers of lights, matching baubles and colour coded tinsel...which has a certainty to it but crazy mumma loves the novelty of a one off as each comes out of the box with its own little story and its journey onto a branch to be on it's own for another year...<br />so even though those young adults leave home they also leave a significant story as each decoration takes its place on the brightly lit tree in the corner of our living room in a house built for 5 which now only has three...but they do come back regularly... and i think they'll like what they see...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19744900-113421651872389155?l=crazymumma.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jannettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11913884884325658522noreply@blogger.com0