Lees in France

Ornaments, decorations and a tree oh my! Last year I left the house to Randy and the kids to decorate for Christmas. I came back to a Christmas tree covered in ornaments and randomly placed rubber bands. Inquiring I heard excitement and laughter. I saw shining eyes, smirking smiles. The story of shooting rubber bands from different locations in the room and seeing how they landed on the tree brought an incredible amount of joy to my kids. Fantastic!

This year neither our family nor the Ferrieu family thought about being away from our houses over the holidays. We decided to make the most of it. Mazie picked out our tree, something different than normal, yet perfect (makes the presents seem more when the tree is small). I ordered one thing from Amazon France. We started making our own ornaments out of anything we could find. Sliced and dried oranges, egg carton creations, cut out snowflakes, images from food boxes, hot cocoa packets tied up with string, these are a few of our tree decorations.

When the brother comes to join us, he makes paper airplanes and flies them toward the miniature tree and says, “VOLIÀ!” 

I think we like making recycled ornaments and may have started a new tradition. I guess we will see next year.

The stockings were made by my mom in Oklahoma in hopes that Saint Drézéry would soon receive.