Christmas Ornament Nostalgia: 40+ Years and Still Bringing Joy
Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 4:02AMSubmitted by Claudia Kittock
I received this ornament from a high school student in the mid-1970s. I was just out of college, teaching at my first job, and had no ornaments of my own. A wonderful senior in the high school choir I directed made this for me, and I loved it. I couldn't wait to put it up every year.
A few years later, I was married, and we had our first puppy. We came home one day in December to find our puppy happily chewing on my ornament. My husband smoothed it out and declared it even better than before. He insisted that it now had more character. When our children entered our lives, each of them couldn't wait to put up the chewed up ornament and hear the story one more time.
It has become one of our favorites, reminding us of love, of puppies, of little boys, and all the chaos of a full and messy family. We are so grateful for everything contained in this bedraggled ornament.
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