My Favorite Xmas Ornament

[Bohemian]

Is a Jester, with a string that the kids can pull to make him dance.

[Thats MS Leah 2 U]

is a little wrapped box that hangs in my tree... every day of December I put something little in it & move it's location. My daughter loves looking for it & finding her little treasure.

[Sweet Livin]

I hang a lovely pair of nuts from my trunk.

[runs with scissors]

My mom has this beautiful glass pear with a partridge on a tree inside.

This will be the first year I put up my own tree, and I don't have anything really meaningful to put up. My sisters and I used to make angels out of colored feathers, so maybe I'll do that.

[WeLiveHereToo]

the angel that tops our tree

[Holiday]

It is CHRISTMAS ornament i feel you people have forgot the real meaning of CHRISTMAS

[I do not know]

Holiday wrote:

It is CHRISTMAS ornament i feel you people have forgot the real meaning of CHRISTMAS

You need to google the "12 days of Christmas"... and you will find out about its importants to Christians... each day has a meaning... Look it up... Don't Judge...

[White Daisy]

mine are the little ones my kids make at school every year and bring home. I try and save them all, I have quit a few now.

[My fave]

My favorite ornaments are 3 matching teddy bears that have a cutout where the heart should be and has the birthstones of my sisters and I instead. My mom hangs them on the tree with my eldest sister at the top and me at the bottom....I love those ornaments!

Now I have my own family and each year my husband and I buy a new one with our names engraved on them and one for our daughters.

[Not xmas]

It is CHRISTMAS. The most important word in Christmas is CHRIST. You may think it is a shorter way to right it but you forget, this world is slowly but surely coming to an end and you need all the forgiveness you can get.

In other words, My favorite decoration is Christmas Lights.:D

[meeeeeeeee]

dont mark christ out of christmas thank you

[PLC]

Growing up in a religion that didn't celebrate Christmas you can imagine my relief when at the age of 29 I finally broke free and was able to celebrate Christmas. My boyfriend at the time (and now my husband) bought me a beautiful Precious Moments with "My First Christmas" and the year engraved on it. To this day, I love that ornament more than any other!

An idea for parents: Each year buy a ornament for your child and then when that child grows up and moves out, let them take "their" ornaments with them! That way they can have a pretty tree without alot of expense when they are first starting out! I have done that with my step-daughter and she loves it.

[Bohemian]

PLC wrote:

Growing up in a religion that didn't celebrate Christmas you can imagine my relief when at the age of 29 I finally broke free and was able to celebrate Christmas. My boyfriend at the time (and now my husband) bought me a beautiful Precious Moments with "My First Christmas" and the year engraved on it. To this day, I love that ornament more than any other!
An idea for parents: Each year buy a ornament for your child and then when that child grows up and moves out, let them take "their" ornaments with them! That way they can have a pretty tree without alot of expense when they are first starting out! I have done that with my step-daughter and she loves it.

I love this idea! I have always Hallmark Baby's First "Christmas" (Okay?) Oranments, but I love your story and your idea!

[PLC]

Glad you liked it Bohemian! It is a good tradition to start. My daughter says she will do the same when she has kids!

[WeLiveHereToo]

Not xmas wrote:

It is CHRISTMAS. The most important word in Christmas is CHRIST. You may think it is a shorter way to right it but you forget, this world is slowly but surely coming to an end and you need all the forgiveness you can get.
In other words, My favorite decoration is Christmas Lights.:D

I don't care much for the abbreviation "Xmas" myself but it actually has historical meaning.

Back in the early days of Christianity when the early Christians met in homes and caves and out in the woods or where ever they could be not caught, they would use the X symbol and the fish symbol to let other Christians know of a meeting place.

So, it isn't really taking the Christ out of Christmas,(which means Christ's Mass if you didn't know) to us "X-mas", more like including the cross in Christ's Mass.

:)

[Bohemian]

WeLiveHereToo wrote:

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I don't care much for the abbreviation "Xmas" myself but it actually has historical meaning.
Back in the early days of Christianity when the early Christians met in homes and caves and out in the woods or where ever they could be not caught, they would use the X symbol and the fish symbol to let other Christians know of a meeting place.
So, it isn't really taking the Christ out of Christmas,(which means Christ's Mass if you didn't know) to us "X-mas", more like including the cross in Christ's Mass.
:)

I love that! I had no idea, and it is so interesting. I was feeling sort of bad for the "Xmas" thing, but you really took the pain away. Thank you for sharing!

[meeeeeeeee]

it looks like the cross is tipped over hmm how nice >:(

[Not xmas]

I dont care if it is a cross. Like meeeeeeeee said, it is tipped over and That's not Christ like. So dont give me a lesson in Christianity I will go to church tonight and get one there. :D

[WeLiveHereToo]

meeeeeeeee wrote:

it looks like the cross is tipped over hmm how nice >:(

Actually, in those days when criminals were crucified with the cross it was in an X shape rather than the T shape we use more commonly.

[meeeeeeeeeeee]

Not xmas wrote:

I dont care if it is a cross. Like meeeeeeeee said, it is tipped over and That's not Christ like. So dont give me a lesson in Christianity I will go to church tonight and get one there.:D

Thanks for the support i appreciate it :)