A Little Holiday Tradition

Both Greg and I grew up with the tradition of getting one new ornament each winter - which means that we both have rather eclectic collections to someday bring to the table (so far the collections are still with our folks, but we hope to have enough storage to remedy that in the next year or so).  When we got married, it only seemed like the obvious choice to continue buying one ornament per winter, whether something to indicate how the year went, where we spent our holidays, or simply one we thought was interesting.

Tags still on - never been put up. Soon to change!

Year 1 - the mermaid. California. Christmas Eve on the beach.
Year 2 - the owl. Colorado. The year of Harry Potter (I finished reading the series and we watched all the movies for the first time).
Year 3 - the cat. Colorado. Sure, it looks nothing like Momo, but it's all about him.
Year 4 - the angel. Colorado. Honestly, we walked past it and both stopped. It just felt right.

Since this year they are finally coming out of their tissue paper homes, I picked up a gold permanent marker and labeled each of them as discretely as possible with the year they represent. I would have loved to include more, but there wasn't always room. I should have looked for a finer tipped marker - or asked someone with better handwriting to handle that part of the project.

Still, I hope the writing is permanent enough to last - and legible enough to work. Someday that information probably won't be quite so easily recalled and I hope that at least a little information will help me remember all the things these little ornaments represent for each year.