plainpat

Love reading the posts....Our youngest DD & family came home for Thgiving.So, I put the Christmas tree up early & it was the 1st thing she said "Oh, you have the tree up"....2nd was "Mom...not all those old things."
Later that eve, both DDs were sitting near the tree & laughing at their old decorations....from paper chains, to a pic in a frame decorated with lime green feathers.Along with my old Santa......they make the tree. I'ts not fancy, but so sweet.Each yr, hub & I say "remember this"?Great memories.

dar627742

one year my eldest dd brought home the BIGGEST<UGLIEST tulip tree [3 ft tall]it was made w/a btoomstick for a stem which gives you some idea of the size ! they blew up huge balloons&decopaged[sp],thenpopped balloon to make flower. i "LOVED" it of course & it sat in a corner of our dinningroom for yrs.don't know what happened to it [TRUELY]bu
t asyou cansee,it made a lasting impression !!!!!

MrsM

I think it was getting their hand prints along with a poem when they were in kindergarten.

kat112000

That is TOO funny!!!! Gotta love them!

I really cherish all the things my kids made me. They think I am nuts to still have their ornaments on my tree, well guess what, I LOVE them and won't part with them. Every year they ask what I want and I tell them to make me something, even just a card and guess what, they have never made me anything. I tell them over and over that I cherish those things more than anything money can buy. Someday they will know what I mean!!

Ramona Byrd

I still have a decorated egg shell my then 5 year old son made me. He carefully blew out the egg under Dad's directions, Scotch taped back the mass of broken shell, put glue on it and rolled it in glitter. It hangs on my tree every year, still shedding glitter, but it is precious to me.
Then there's the year my oldest daughter (8) gave my husband something for his desk..thumb tacks. They actually looked like thumbs with a nail through it. When DH stopped laughing he put fishing line on some and hung them on the tree so she could admire her gift for years to come!!
Youngest daughter, at about age 5, decided that since I read a lot a big book, a really BIG book would be the best present for me. So DH took her shopping, came back laughing. That year I got from her a huge Dictionary. No idea of where it is now...she's now a school teacher!!!
There are many memories on that now small, artificial tree, wouldn't get rid of it for anything.