"Christmas Traditions..."

When I was lil RedShoes, I would always get SO excited when Mom would start to get the Christmas decorations out...  And she would always let my brothers and me pick out one ornament to hang on the tree... they were all glass for the most part... and very fragile...

My mostest favorite ornament... one I looked forward to hanging on the tree EACH and EVERY year... was a red glass ball with a painted reindeer running across a snowcovered field... I covet that ornament... that was MY ornament...


And somewhere, it got lost... or broken... When Mom died, one of my brothers named himself the owner of all of the great decorations... so maybe he has it... he knows that part of the Christmas ritual every year is that  Shoes is going to ask if he's got the red reindeer ornament...

I guess I lost track of caring about the red reindeer ornament, other than to bore the Redshoe kids about it each year when we would decorate the Christmas tree... but when I divorced... and was putting my Life back together... the first year I put up a tree, I wanted a red reindeer ornament...


Every year I look for new ornaments for my Christmas tree.. and I mark the year I buy them on the bottom of the ornament... so that I will know when I became the owner of that decoration... I have found ALL kinds of reindeer ornaments... some of them are even red... but I haven't found THAT ornament... I figure some yard sale... some old antique place some year... I will walk in and there will be my ornament...


I shopped for the RedShoe "Kids" yesterday... wound up buying a whole crap load of ornaments... but no reindeer ones... But I suppose I will look tomorrow...

I love Christmas... it's my Mother's Fault...