Pretty Ribbons

                                                            I hope everyone had a very special Christmas.  This year circumstances made it where I was reminded how wonderful it is to have little children in the house during the Christmas season.  I had my grandchildren scurrying around with boundless excitement and anticipation.  The advent calendar was truly a life saver for us all after my seven year old granddaughter declared that is was Christmas the day after Thanksgiving.  In her defense, the bombardment of advertising for Christmas since Halloween might have anyone confused.  I guess in her mind she thought it was about time to "get the show on the road" as they say.

The photograph above represents the beautiful ribbon and trims that come off our carefully wrapped packages.  I just can't throw them in the trash.  I save the best of them, ok, most of them.  I tuck them away until next year and pull my little bag out when I need to tie something up in a snap. I have even used that years tags and ribbons to embellish scrapbook pages that I really love.  I can vividly remember my Grandmother Viola carefully saving every ribbon and sometimes paper. Family would comment that it was the Scottish in her that made her thrifty and others reflected that living during the great depression taught you to save what you have.  I am going to embrace with pride that this is just a little part of me that is like Viola and I will continue to feel a kinship to her and be thankful for family each year as I fill my little bag with pretty ribbons. 

Savoring the Season.   -  Marianne