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| A handmade ornament from our trip to Guatemala |
At the top sits a little rag doll we bought on our first trip to Ethiopia. Her name is Kokeb, after Bereket's best friend in her orphanage. We started using this doll as a tree topper while Kokeb's parents were waiting to bring her home. It was a reminder to pray for their family and their little girl. Three Christmases later, there is no angel I would rather have at the top of our tree.
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| Our Kokeb angel |
I am a person who thrives on simplicity. Sometimes I have taken that to extremes. Like the year I just decorated the tree with lights and our Kokeb angel and left the ornaments in their box. My sweet niece and nephew politely told me my tree was "very boring." They were right! (Especially after seeing it immediately after the glamorous ones at the Festival of Trees.) But I just smiled at them thinking how come January 1st, I would be able to take my tree down and have it hidden away in its box in the basement closet in less than 10 minutes. And it was a good feeling come New Year's Day.
When we came home from our Christmas travels this year, within an hour I had finished my holiday toy purge. If Bereket hadn't played with a toy in 6 months, it was put in the box of "misfit toys" headed for a new life in a new home. I could feel the peace of organization as order was restored to our living room.
So I am surprising myself today that here it is, January 4th and I have no desire to take down our little tree. Jason has mentioned it a few times, but I have been pretending not to hear. How unlike me! That tree should have come down three days ago!
I think I am afraid to let go of the magic of the holidays. Perhaps I need that magic to get me through the historic cold temperatures forecasted for next week. It will be so cold, the governor has actually canceled school all across the state for Monday which only happens about once every twenty years.
If you were to see our little tree, "magic" is likely the last word that would come to mind. But you haven't seen Bereket race to it in the morning. Plugging in the lights is the first thing she does after getting out of bed. It is the first thing she does in the afternoon when she gets home from daycare. And then there are the simple additions of ornaments made in daycare or at AWANA that are so much more than construction paper.
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| The ornament Bereket made in AWANA this year. |
Christmas 2013 will now live on in pictures and in the gift of baby Jesus. You don't need a tree to enjoy the beauty of those. But still I linger and stall this weekend at the thought of taking it down.
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| Bereket and her baby doll modeling their new Christmas dresses from Grandma in front of the tree. |
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