This will be the first time in years John and I won’t attend the Armistice Commemoration in Ayer’s Cliff. The public event was canceled to keep everyone safe. We will just have to remember in private ….
I am busy these days making the 27 Christmas ornaments for my family members. Not sure if and when we will be able to see any of them, but luckily this year’s ornaments are relatively light and unbreakable so they can be mailed out. They are a surprise so I can’t tell you what they are, but I make something different every year, so I can tell you they are not small watercolors, origami, papier maché, spice paste, painted wood shapes, clay, painted glass balls, marbled glass balls, needle felting, air dried clay, painted initials, wire-wrapped beads, personalized perfumes, cork, or zentangle covered balls. I am forgetting a few. I never thought I would be doing this for so long (19th edition this year!) so I didn’t keep track! Well, I attempted to remedy that to write this blog; thankfully I kept one of each so I will be able to complete my list when I take the ornaments out this year! We haven’t been home for Christmas for many years, so we haven’t been getting our decorations out of storage, but this year will be different! I talked about this tradition a bit in my October 7 blog, and credited it with my rediscovery of art. I mentioned that I started it in 2002, the year my mother died. She had been giving her grandchildren an ornament every year at Christmas. I thought it was a great idea, because it meant that by the time they left home, they would already have a good number of ornaments for their own tree, and with very special memories attached. I didn’t want the tradition to die with her, so I thought I would do it for one year, to make the first Christmas without “grand-maman” a bit easier. And while I was at it, I made an ornament for my brother and sisters too. They were very well received and so I decided to do it again the following year, but I challenged myself to do something different. And so a new tradition was born and continues on in our family. I have no military family members to remember on Remembrance day, but I certainly take time to remember and thank those countless souls who gave it all for us. I hope their memory keeps us from ever adding to those numbers.
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