New Decoration

I usually buy a few new Christmas ornaments every year to remind us of what happen that year or how we celebrated the holiday. One year I bought matchy, matchy ornaments with my Mom when she spent Thanksgiving in Utah with us. You might remember the one year we had no money, and so we tied a cat ball on one of Quinn's hair bows and placed it on the tree. We have a Christmas cat ornament from my mom the year we got Berkeley, and an Angel for the year we had Quinn. We hung Tim's graduation tassel up for 2006, and a key chair I bought during the 3 day walk for 2009. We have little drums all over the tree to represent Tim's music and the simple gift for the baby Jesus from the little drummer boy. Tim's mom has given us some really beautiful wooden nativity and star ornaments that I love. We have a small stuffed poodle has we hand up every year to remember the passion of our oldest child and a small frame with an ultrasound picture to remember the miracle of our second. I'm sure at some point this Christmas season I will find an ornament for this year ... but so far ... no luck. Here is the deal. A lot happen this year. A lot! But not a whole lot of it is tree worthy. I got a new job that took up all my time and made me crazy. I went on and off Zoloft. I had a miscarriage. Kenna went crazy. Tim took a bunch of tests. I cured my lifelong stomach and bladder pain. I lost 25 pounds. I got pregnant twice. Quinn learned and grew and got sassy. Kenna learned to scoot, walk and love shoes ... that's it. I'll buy a shoe! I think Kenna's journey is a really big start of 2010. We working was part of that journey for her. The zoloft drama was part of that journey. And her shoes were her first passion after she finish her withdrawal and became our McKenna. I'll buy a shoe ornament or just hang up one of her shoes. Well, the point of this post was not answer the problem, but the point was to tell you that because I could not find an ornament for 2010, I took my girls to Smiths's Marketplace today, and we bought a new decoration for the house. $13.99 for a pretty cute Santa.

So, I guess now we'll have a Santa and a shoes (and a little bike ornament to represent my fall down the mountain on our 7th anniversary ... if I can find one.) :)