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The next photos are of the first ornaments my husband and I got for our Christmas tree six years ago. Our current tree is still the same one we bought for $16.99 at Target in 2005. As college students, we could barely afford the tree, a container of brightly-colored balls, and two "special" ornaments: a ceramic snowman that is a bell, and a pine cone and straw owl. I still remember when we came back to Ball State from Christmas vacation that first year dating and seeing that, whoa!, Joanie, the stray cat we'd taken in had wrestled several of the pink and red and white and lime green thread-covered balls off the tree and chased them all around the room leaving a maze of string zig-zagging around the legs of chairs, desks, etc; it looked like one of those scenes in the movies where someone is trying to steal a jewel from a museum, but there is a lattice-work of lasers protecting the room.
I savor decorating the tree and the slow-mo way memories come back, one after another as I unpack the box with our small collection of ornaments and the lifetime of ornaments that are upstairs in the attic "at Home" where a live Christmas tree comes inside every year and where we actually gather together for the holidays. My tree can be a pre-Christmas tree, and morph into a winter pleasantry, but the real "tree" is at home, with Mom, Dad, and J, and the jingle bells on the door to the porch and the advent calendar on the way to the attic and the personalized stockings hanging outside our bedroom doors.