The Christmas Forest...

I hope everyone has the very best of times in your special holiday this year and for many years to come.

This is our Christmas Forest and Village. It's a little different every year but I've been building a Christmas village for as long as I can remember. Mother always used to arrange little paper houses under the Christmas tree and I would watch and pretend it was a real village with real little people in it. When I got old enough, she started letting me arrange it. Sometimes I'd put it under the tree like she did but other years I'd set up a card table and put the village there. It didn't matter to Mother. However I wanted to do it was okay with her.

David and I have always had a tree. Our first tree was a 4' white flocked artificial tree. We were looking for a regular green one and I happened to look way up high in a large store. There on the very top shelf, all by itself was this little white tree. It looked so lonesome and forlorn. I pointed it out to David and he understood immediately. So it was our first tree.

Then one year, we went to a garden center to buy a live cut tree. We looked at several but there again I heard a call. I walked down the row to a little tree that was clear down at the end, sort of tossed aside. I lifted it up. It had a bent trunk and some branches were missing... I called David over. Again he understood immediately. That tree was so beautiful after we had it all decorated. We (I) couldn't bear to part with it until Ground Hog's Day. :-)

So, many trees and many Christmases later, we moved into our present little Cape Cod house. It was too small for our usual tree, so we bought a Christmas Forest. Three short (1', 3' and 4') narrow trees. We used them last year and they're perfect again this year. And the village is very happy at the edge of the Christmas Forest.




At this Special time, may you Find
Love, Peace, Health, Renewal.
Hope, Food, Safety, Warmth.
Friends, Family, Trust, Home.
May they stay with you all the year long.