Everyone's family has special Christmas traditions. One of ours is to put up our tree the Sunday after thanksgiving. Daddy always puts it together and strings the lights (sometimes garland or beads, too), then Mother pulls out boxes of ordinaments and hooks and passes them out to us and we hang them. Over the years we have collected lots of different ordinaments and made even more, so a few years ago Mother did some heavy organizing. There are some that don't always get pulled out now, and others that made their way to the garbage I'm sure. But there are some repeats that always go in particular places. I thought I would share them here. The first is the "Angel of Death." Benji made this in Kindergarden and while the rest of us all have beautiful angels, but not him. It always goes at the very top of the tree, and through out the month I will move it and hide it, putting mine above his, and he will move it back. Then there is a bell (you know the line from its a wonderful life) and a shepard boy that I alway hang together at the top. Finally, there is the golden snowflake, we all use to fight for it, manuver in line when we saw it coming up, all in hopes of getting it that year. It doesn't have a particular place other than up in and under the branches and not crowded out.

So what about your family? Any cool things that you do?