December 4

"The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas." - W. C. Jones

Today's journal prompt is about a sentimental piece of holiday decor. I would have to say, my most sentimental piece of holiday decor isn't even something that I have. When I was young, my father built a beautiful stable of wood and bought a fancy set of figurines to go in it. My sister has it in her home and gets to display it each year. My Christmas decorations were incomplete without a nice manger so I went out and found something similar so that I too could have the infant Jesus in the center of my holiday decorating. It's not the same, but it is special to me as well.

Because we had a busy day today, we didn't make an ornament but we are ahead a few since we started some before December 1. Here is a picture of one we did a few days ago.