My favorite of our holiday traditions (which only became “a tradition” last year, but still): a family trip to a Christmas shop in Nyack, where we each pick out an ornament that symbolizes what the past year meant to us.
For Goldie: An old-school My First Christmas ball engraved with her name and birth year.
For me: An ornament with the sun on one side (to symbolize our summer in California) and a moon-and-stars design on the other (to symbolize Goldie’s birth during the Supermoon and Indy’s first spoken “sentence,” which was “moon…stars”).
For Kendrick: A Christmas In New York ornament, for our last holiday season in the city.
And for Indy: A plane. Because he likes planes. (Fair enough.)
Some of my favorite (pretty/interesting/flat-out weird) online finds for your perusal, just because looking at ornaments is always fun (I think so, anyway):
(The wishbone is beautiful, and that hedgehog might be the cutest thing I have ever seen. And every tree should probably have a terrifying swamp creature on it, no?)
