Decorating From Scratch

We have started over many times over the past 11 months.  When all your worldy shit burns up, you get used to starting over.  We have started over with pets, for example.  We are on our 3rd hamster, and now have accumulated 2 cats and a killer albino bunny.  We are talking fencing in the yard and getting a couple Beagle puppies, but that is a year away or so at least.

We have also started over with clothing, computers, kitchen stuff, collectibles, art and furniture.  It's the exhaustive list that never seems to be done:  we ran out of money before we replaced half of it, so now we are just accumulating stuff as we go.

One thing I didn't anticipate was decorating for the holidays.  We had just bought a new Christmas tree last year, along with a butt load of decorations, which of course, burnt up a month after Christmas, along with all of our new presents and everything else we owned.  So, we had nothing to get out to decorate the new house.  Thank God for moms, though, and grandmas who come to the rescue.

Mom gave me a whole box of Grandma McCoy's home-made decorations for the tree, so we had to buy a new one.  Son #2 insisted on a white tree, so that's what we got.   It goes very well with the navy blue and pearl decorations, and as soon as we buy the right kind of lights for the tree, it will be quite stunning. 

But dammit, I miss my old decorations that I had been accumulating over the years:  the ornaments with the boys' baby pics; the "play that funky music, white lamb" stuffed lamb I bought at a craft fair; and my Santa doll that i got on my first birthday that STILL played music. 

So, once again, as I WAA WAA WAA about SHIT, life goes on.  Life will always plug along, and occasionally drop those memories that make you both feel whole and sad at the same time. And in the meatime, we decorate the house from scratch and begin to make brand new rocking-chair memories.