[KateD]

No wonder I don't enjoy putting up the tree as much as I'd like. I have soooo many ornaments, it's crazy!

We have a 12 foot tree and this year I decided that I'd only put on the special ornaments. Well, I can't even fit all of them on the tree! My mom has been giving me an ornament each year since 1978, and the two boys each of their Christmases (22 years combined). We've bought a family ornament each year that we've been married and an ornament each year for the boys. My aunt gave me a dozen or two ornaments from my grandparents tree a few years ago. Plus we've collected random ones here and there. Honestly, I have enough ornaments for 4 or 5 trees!

After I finished putting the tree up tonight I emptied two boxes and I'm putting duplicates of the regular ornaments (not the yearly ones) into those two boxes and I'm going to seal them up and give them to the boys when they have a tree of their own. That way I won't have to take as many boxes out of the attic and sort through so many ornaments each year. I think I'm also going to take all the extra plain colored balls and donate them somewhere.

I haven't really had the desire to continue the tradition of getting ornaments for the last couple of years and I think I understand why.