I recall one year it was announced in Relief
Society that we had been given the opportunity for submitting a tree to the festival of trees and were asked to
save our frozen juice lids as we would be using them for making ornaments to
decorate the tree. We had an enrichment
activity later on in the month making tin punch ornaments.
I continued saving juice lids long
after the holidays. What a cute
idea. I tried making tin punch ornaments
several years later with Roland’s two oldest girls. As I recall, they didn’t turn out too
great. Still I kept the lids. My scouting calling was too short lived for
tin punch introduction.
Jenna found the lids when she was two or
three. She’d play with them and count them and call it her money. It was cute.
It definitely provided inexpensive entertainment. So that was cool.
I love Jenna’s enthusiasm. And what she perceives as beautiful.
When Roland and I were married, the boys
had a Checkers game board with Santa Clause and Christmas tree pieces. Over the years, the pieces would start
disappearing and it wasn’t practical to try and play checkers.
When Jenna was three or four, we had gone
to a second hand store and she had fallen in love with a pink vanity set that I
was not planning on buying – but the joy and enthusiasm and price made it
worthwhile.
I remember coming in her room to help her
find something and opened up a plastic drawer from her vanity and found it full
of Christmas trees that were left over from the checker game the boys had. It still makes me smile when I think of
it. She had to have them because they
were “very beautiful”
Oh, to be that age again!
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