Blogmas Day Five - Decorations Up and Mince Pies Eaten

Traditionally I have always put my decorations up on our anniversary, but this year I was one day ahead of the game, and my little tree was adorned with all it's usual little memory gems on the third.  

Alan also had his strange tree up but it was undecorated on the third, so he finished it off on our anniversary and now it suddenly looks almost normal.  It's one of those that collapses down on itself and fits in a flat square box once Christmas is over, he loves it ... me not so much.  It will be interesting to see what happens next year if we are in our bungalow by then!!

 

I tried to get some photos of the rest of my little array of decorations, but the light was terrible ... anyway you can get the gist.  Each decoration holds dear memories of various stages of our lives.  

The two ceramic angels were bought for my first Christmas in my own little rented house when I was separated from my first husband, so they pre-date Alan by quite a while.

The American pick-up truck and the 'bauble plate' were bought from a charity shop when we lived in the rented flat in our current town, after selling our smallholding in Wales, and just before we bought the house we are in now.

The tiny caravan was bought when I lived in the caravan, and the 'bear in the forest' light-up dome when we moved to this house.  

Memories that come out each and every Christmas.

We still stop at the services on the way home from visiting Mum each time we go, and it's now become almost traditional to get a sausage roll each ... meat for Alan, vegan for me ... but added to the Christmas mix have been a doughnut for Alan and a mince pie for me.  They had no single pies for sale on Wednesday this week, so what was a girl to do ... yes, I bought a pack of six.  

Which was a bit of a bargain when one costs £1 and six costs just £3.25. 😄

I brought five of them home and shared nicely with Alan.

Sue xx