Do you ever get the idea for something where the result will be YEARS in the future?!? You have no idea how it's going to turn out, but when that YEARS in the future day finally comes...it's surreal.
We have just experienced one recently that I thought I would share --
When we had our first daughter (Victoria) in 2000, we intentionally decided to get her an ornament every year that signified something from that year of her life. It was definitely easier some years than others to think of and find an ornament than other years. There were the baby ones from the first year or two, then the Blues Clues and Strawberry Shortcake years.
(That Strawberry Shortcake ornament still smells like she did that first Christmas!)
Then we moved on to the school years where there was the violin, art classes, elementary volleyball and tennis playing years. There are repeats of some of those because they were such a part of her life and there are always new and different ornaments! Many years, ornaments would come from grandparents as well.
Our plan was that when she got her own place, once she graduated college, that she would have these ornaments for her own Christmas tree so she wouldn't have to start from nothing.
We are doing the same thing for our youngest daughter--Some of those elementary school play parts made it REALLY hard to find ornaments. Apologies to the woman in the Disney Store in Branson that I beat out in quickly reaching for the very last Rafiki ornament (and only one I ever saw, and I even scoured Disney World while we were there).
Well last year as we packed up our tree, we separated out Victoria's ornaments since she was graduating in May and would be teaching somewhere this year. Fast forward to a few weeks ago when she put up her tree in her apartment and she was thankful to have her ornaments to go on it. It was a bit weird for her to have them on her own tree and a bit bare looking on our tree not having them.
However, it is an idea that worked exactly like I envisioned all those days (oh I mean years) ago!
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