We made our annual trip down to the German Christkindl market at Daley Plaza in Chicago again last week and, per tradition, the kids got to pick out their Christmas ornaments. I have this dream that one day when I'm old and gray, they will bring their own kids to my house and my grandchildren will place all these little wooden ornaments on the tree. Is that weird? No, don't answer that.
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| Anna chose a little angel ornament |
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| Shockingly, Abe selected a train ornament |
As I gently unpacked the kids' ornaments I realized that nearly every ornament we have for Abe is a train. He's got an ornament style. Anna has a pretty wide range of ornaments, I can never predict what will tickle her fancy. This year she was adamant that her ornament have a girl on it.
We get them from the German Kathe Wolfhart shop that pops up at the Christkindl market each year, which is the same ornament shop we visited when we traveled to Rothenburg, Germany, during our honeymoon ten years ago. I dearly hope we can always accommodate this tradition. I took the kids out of school and we played hooky in order to make it happen this year!
And as we were standing in line to purchase the German candies and sweets, I thought perhaps one day the kids will walk down those cobblestone streets in Rothenburg themselves. Or maybe we can take them some day. Who knows...
Daydreaming prior to purchasing a giant box of chocolate covered marshmallows can be dangerous.
Okay, maybe I am a little weird.
1 comment:
Great tradition!!
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