Spending time with family
Hello everyone and Merry Christmas. This year, my wife and I have decided that we are doing Christmas a bit different. We are focusing on just spending time with our loved ones and forgetting all about the gift giving aspect of Christmas.
Time is one of the most important things that we have here in this world, so we are trying to be more conscious about how we are spending our time together. We are focusing more on making memories that will last a lifetime instead of gifts that do not last.
My parents have been here at our home for the past few days and then we are going to be going up to my sister's home tomorrow. It will be the first time in a very long time that my older brother has been to my sisters home when my parents and I have. As we have all gotten older and our families have grown, it has been hard to get together. Our oldest brother and his wife and daughter have been living in Japan for almost ten years now, so they wont be here. It will be cool if they are able to come back and visit some time, but I know they have been enjoying living in Japan. That was my favorite place to live growing up.
I got a new Christmas tree this year and it has turned out to be a great purchase. It was pretty expensive, so I was worried that it wouldn't be worth it because the tree that we had prior to this was really nice as well. The problem was that it was too large to be set up anywhere in our home except smack dab in the middle of the living room where our ceilings are their tallest. I think the tree was close to 12 feet tall when it had all the pieces on. Last year, we only set it up with two of the three sections so it could fit where we have our tree now. I really like this new tree though because it has colorful lights on it and you can switch the color to just be the white lights if you want.
We have collected some really cool decorations over the years. About 8 years ago, our dogs broke out of their kennels and knocked our tree down and ate most of our old decorations. It was sad because they ruined many of the decorations that our kids had made when they were really young, so it sucks that all those memories are gone. When you are younger and your kids are younger, you never really think about how meaningful things like handmade tree decorations are until they are gone. I am just glad that the dogs didnt ruin all of them.
Its so fun looking back at old decorations and reliving the memories associated with them. We usually get a few new decorations each year. This year, one of the new decorations that I got was the little pickle jar decoration. Our daughter loves pickles and one of her friends that lives in Tennessee sends her large jars of pickles for her birthday each year. I also bought a pack of Squishmallow ornaments because our nieces in Oregon love Squishmallows, so it reminds us of our time we spent with them.
Last night during the sunset, I took some shots of the moon. The next full moon is the day after Christmas, so it will be a special full moon. I am probably going to make a fire out in our backyard and we will spend time together under the moon as we prepare to go into this next year.
I hope you all have a great Christmas. Give your family and friends lots of love and hold them close. Time with friends and family is the best gift.
Merry Christmas, man! I hope you're having a great day. Give my best wishes to your family. The photos are perfect.
Thanks homie. Have a great Christmas with your family.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Wes
Thanks man. Merry Christmas to you as well. I hope you have a great holiday season.
This season is fun in almost every part of the world. Enjoy and have a nice fun with your family. Merry Christmas and happy New year in advance. Stay safe friend
Merry Christmas
Chingoo~ that is one really beautiful Christmas tree man. Merry Christmas to you and your loving family homie. :)
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance to you. Enjoy yourself and have a very good time with your household your decorations are very lovely
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you too.
I wish you Merry Christmas more if it in good health
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you as well.
same to you
Amen
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Spending Christmas with your family is the most important, especially parents, as we and they grow older. Hope you guys have a lovely time
Thank you. It’s been great having my parents here. Time goes too fast and we don’t have a lot of time with our parents as they get older.
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Merry Christmas from this side and hope you are enjoying your day also
Merry Christmas to you and your family
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Merry Christmas to you and everyone else in your family. I hope you enjoy the Christmas. Also wish every one on hive a merry Christmas too.
Love the funko pop figures hanging in the tree! Such a nice way to enjoy Christmas as a gamer 😃 I wanted to do that a while ago too, but only with baby Yoda figures haha
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones! 🎄🎁
A month ago everyone started decorating and all the places are looking very beautiful and the special advantage of such events is that there is a chance to meet each other and people meet each other.
Merry Christmas to you, the new tree looks beautiful with all your homemade ornaments that always bring back wonderful memories.
Merry christmas my friend!! i'm glad you had a good time with your family!
Wishing you and your family a wonderful festive season @derangedvisions xxx
Looks like it was a really nice Christmas man.
That tree is beautiful and the ornaments are really cool too.
I like your perspective with making positive family memories over the more material based mindsets that many have.
Wishing you a great new year ahead!
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