Unboxing the Christmas decorations is like going to a reunion with old friends. You pick up where you left off.

It’s me who has changed. With each passing year, the trinkets, the ornaments, the sparkly and the shiny things I ask to see in December seem more dear to me.

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…was in my grandma’s kitchen when she was making popcorn balls for Christmas.

I wrote an ode/dis over at Mile High Mamas. I miss those days of Christmas past when tradition was honored in sticky pink and green orbs.

(Photo is from Christmas, 1976, at my grandma’s house. I’m in the green […]