A Walk Down Memory Lane

Five years ago today Jay and I were married at University Church of Christ among family and friends. It was a gorgeous day... about 75 degrees! (A far cry from the 32 degrees we saw for a high today.) Our wedding was a long-awaited event. After a really long engagement we finally felt prepared to take the plunge. It has been a wonderful ride thus far and I look forward to the next fifty years. Every year is better than the one before so 2058 should be an amazing time in our life together!!I worked this afternoon to put up and decorate our Christmas tree. It was certainly a fitting way to spend our anniversary. I was flooded with memories as I put our "First Christmas Together," "Parents-to-Be," and "Baby's First Christmas" ornaments on the tree. Then I was taken back even more as I carefully hung my "Baby's First Christmas" ornament and other special ornaments from my childhood. When Eve was finished with her bath she came in to help. I had left all the non-breakable ornaments for her to hang on the bare bottom branches. She was so precious as she tried to choose just the right spot for each one. When we finished with the last one she said, "What do we do now, Mommy?" I said, "Well, now we just look at our tree." She looked up at it and breathlessly said, "Mommy, our Christmas tree is bee-you-ti-full!"

If only the evening stopped here this would be a sweet sentimental story, but now that wouldn't be Eve, would it? About 15 minutes after the tree was complete, Jay and I were watching television while Eve played. We heard a tinkering and commotion from the other room followed by, "I'm so sorry, Mommy. I'm so, so sorry." After a summons from her daddy Eve came rushing in the family room with a bucket-full of ornaments. She said, "Wook! I got all these berries off the tree!" Then she proceeded to empty the contents of the bucket in the middle of the floor resulting in this last picture. Our poor Christmas tree may be in for a long month!!