Helpful Mom

While we were at the Garden Factory last week I decided we should begin a tradition a friend had told me her family had done for them as kids.  Each year they would purchase an ornament for each of the kids that would go on the tree but then would be theirs once they got married.  I loved this idea because I can remember our first Christmas after we got married.  We got married in November and Joel hadn’t found a job yet so we had no money and no decorations for a tree, so I love the idea of buying ornaments for them over the years to help get them started and they would have some meaning behind them, rather than the beautifully matching ones we have now but there is no meaning behind them other than the fact that they coordinate with our living room decor.  And it doesn’t have to be expensive either, the ones the girls picked were $1 and $2 each.