Winter Snow

A Christmas memory I never want to forget....

 I was a single mom with two small children.

The first Christmas we were alone, 

started looking around the apartment for ornaments

....anything really...

that we could decorate the house with.

Realizing the boxes of ornaments we used to have

were nowhere to be found... sadness set in, oh dear!

No time for sadness though...gotta do something and quick!

Christmas was coming!

Somehow I came up with $10 to buy a fresh tree

from the stand across the street

Happy with that, I took the kids to a nearby K-Mart

where we purchased $2 plastic stained glass ornaments and

painted them ourselves

They were beautiful!!

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We had flour, salt and water ......

 put them all together and made

the cutest dough ornaments you ever wanted to see

painted little Santa's, stars, angels and trees

hung them all up on our little tree

along with freshly popped corn and

red and green construction paper ring garlands

Brad, Melissa and I had so much fun

making our ornaments

and so proud of our little tree

No amount of money could buy
the gift of togetherness my children and I shared.
Baking, painting, cutting, gluing and stringing....
we were busy
we were happy
my two little ones and I.

Thank you Lord for that Christmas