End of the Holidays...

I got our ornaments and lights off the tree, we got the tree outside, and I gathered everything Christmassy that I own and put it in a pile. The end of the holidays are always sad because, at least in our house, it gets less festive when the decorations disappear, but this year, it was a little bit harder to undecorate our place. I got three little storage containers and decided I could only keep what would fit in those. I have two pretty small ones and one medium one but still on the small side. If anyone remembers pictures of how teeny tiny our place was in Denmark, you'll understand why I couldn't keep it all. I had to go through years of stuff I have collected over the holidays and decide what I wanted to keep the most. What made it even harder was that a lot of our Christmas stuff was also used in our wedding.

So after much sifting and thinking and picking and choosing, I got it all narrowed down. Of course, I'm keeping all our ornaments and all the stuff that is particularly special. There were some silly things though didn't make the cut but I guess would have to be thrown away eventually. Examples: We still have the first 2 boxes of gold and red ornaments Michael and I bought back in probably 2000 the first time we decorated a tree together and the Santa Claus we bought to set on top of the tree. There was one year Michael got in the holiday spirit and jetted off to Walmart and bought a huge strand of green garlandly stuff and intertwined it with lights and hung above our fireplace probably also back in 2000 and we also used it at our wedding. I undid the lights from the garland for the first time yesterday. I guess going through all our Christmas stuff from years past put me in a remembering mood since this was our 8th Christmas to spend together some of this stuff went way back. Like I said, I'm a sentimental shmuck, I'm sure no one really cares about any of this that I just typed and if you read this long, thanks! :o)