I'm not talking about your favorite sports team -- we're discussing tree toppers!
Whether your favorite holiday classic is "A Christmas Story", "It's A Wonderful Life", "The Nutcracker Suite", "A Christmas Carol" or "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," every production has a huge Christmas tree as a dominant part of its story. Some are topped by Victorian angels, some are topped by ornate glass decorations, and one is even crowned by a star placed on top by a toothless abominable snowman!
So, whether you choose to use a star, an angel or any other tree topper, realize that you are creating a holiday tradition that your children will take with them as they embark on their own adult lives.
I grew up in a family that topped with a delicate, glass-blown ornament. When I married, my husband brought his family tradition of a Victorian angel topper to our new family. So, for our first year of marriage, we had the Angel vs. Ornament debate. I thought about alternating years, having two trees and every other imaginable solution to the T3 (Tree Topper Tradition) trouble that we encountered.
Honestly, there wasn't a good solution.........until we got a new tree! With a taller tree, we realized that neither topper would fit, and we had to invent our own T3! We love our new topper, (a "ginormous" mass of meshy, metallic wired bows), and we created it as a family. And so ends our T3 troubles --- until our boys marry!
© Text by Janice Benoit. [December, 2006]. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized use will constitute an infringement of copyright
