S'mores & Ornaments

Tonight, after dinner, we toasted marshmallows and made the most delicious s'mores in honor of decorating our Christmas tree.

Yummmmm!!

Time to decorate the tree!!

I thought I would share some of my favorite ornaments I've gathered through the years.
This precious ornament was given to us right after returning home from China. It has the year that we adopted Spicy Girl.

This panda was a gift from Panda Mom last year.

I started teaching in 1993. I have received many ornaments from students over the years. This one I received in 2000 from a sweet boy and his German mother.



This is one of Daddy Spice's ornaments from when he was a little boy. His mother gave it to me several year ago. I treasure it, as I don't have any from when I was a kid.

I have loved the Peanuts since I was a kid. I was so excited to get this ornament to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

For several years, after my Pomeranian had died, I looked for an ornament with a Pomeranian. I could never find one. My sweet mother-in-law found one for me last year. This was Baby, my wonderful Pomeranian.




And this one, of course, is dedicated to my Delilah, whose "bowling" Baby over in doggy heaven.

When our family moved away from home, we had to sell the house we had built next door to our best friends. When we moved, I found this ornament, "kindred spirits" for my best friend. She spent the next year looking for the same ornament for me and finally found it. Now we both have one we put on our tree every year.


Daddy Spice and I got married the week before Christmas. It was my first year teaching, and many of my students gave us special ornaments.


This is the first home my husband and I had built. It was a white stone, two story house. We loved it and hated having to sell it and move away.

One of the ornaments a student gave me my first year teaching.

One of my teacher friends went to London and brought all of us this Harrods ornament. I don't know why I love it so much. It's just really cute...and I've been to Harrods too.
And last but not least, this is the newest one Spicy Girl's grandmother bought her right after Thanksgiving. S.G. loves puppies and kitties.

It's all done. There are so many more I could post, but it would just take forever. I have a lot of S.G.'s special ornaments, but they all have her name on them, so I left them out.

Please tell me about some of your favorite ornaments. I love the stories they tell.