1st Awesome of Christmas!!!!

1st AWESOME OF CHRISTMAS!!! Drum roll please, my Christmas masterpiece is at the end…wipe your tears kids, because I saved the best for last: 1st Awesome of Christmas…those oranaments!! Ok, so I have always had the same ornaments. Christmas wouldn’t be the same without the staple ornaments: Baby’s 1st Christmas 1981, my white bunny in a roller skate, Care Bears Merry Christmas 1983 & my Kermit the Frog/Miss Piggy Merry Christmas 1984. However, my mom’s Christmas ornaments might trump mine. My mom was a 4 year-old Sunday school teacher at my church from 1984-2004, and she got a lot of ornaments. However, there is one that she got when I was 4 from a kid I went to school (k-12th grade). It’s not at all Christmasy, I mean..it’s a beehive, with little felt bees on it. My mom will hang it on the tree every year and say “TJ gave me this ornament”. Then she has this ornament that is the only ornament she had as a child, and it still has fake snow crusted on it. Then there’s dad’s one ornament, that’s right..his ONE ornament. It’s a manger scene, it’s a light up glass ornament and about the size of a small plate. Apparently, it’s all about size for dad’s ornaments. Every year when we were younger my grandma would give us ornaments. Now, my mom says it was only until we were 16, however, I know that I got ornaments up until I was 18. As previously stated, grandma is blind..and you can actually tell when she started to go blind in my ornaments..like, they get progressively uglier, until she started giving away her own Christmas ornaments. My dad would have two ornaments, but I got one as my annual ornament from grandma. Then there’s the ornaments you have to guard from Anna May (dad’s sister, mother of Brenda, also thief of grandma), namely the “Easter Poop” & Grandma and Grandpa’s 50th Anniversary Ornament. I’ll start with the latter. It’s an ornament that has a picture of my grandparents standing in front of our church. My dad took the picture, my mom bought the ornament, so when grandma gave away all her ornaments she gave it back to them. Anna May wants it badly, and you have to keep an eye on her when she’s standing at our Christmas tree crying over it, or she’ll steal it. Fo Sho! Then there’s the Easter Poop, which was actually my grandma’s Easter purse in 1929. There’s actually a piece of paper in it that says “Easter purse 1929”). Well, this was my last Christmas ornament from grandma. It’s just a small basket, like..it actually looks like an ornament. Being the youngest grandchild, and since grandma had been blind since I was 10, I pretty much got whatever she pulled out of her own ornament collection for years anyways. When I opened this ornament, grandma said “It’s my Easter Purse”, and you actually heard Anna May gasp. She turned to Brenda and commented about how she had wanted that ornament. I of course heard this comment because Anna May & Brenda both have one volume, ear bleeding loud. So anyways, it is also an ornament that you have to watch when Anna May is over, or else she’ll steal. Scott and I have created this scenario that Anna May would hid this ornament in her rectum and sneak it out of the house as if it were heroin..and thus you know about one of my favorite ornaments, the Easter Poop.