Each year there is less

Now that all the Christmas decorations are up it sure does look jolly. Well not all the decorations came out. You see the older I get the less I feel like dragging it all out. It's funny, you spend decades buying just the right decorations to add to your Christmas decorations. Then suddenly you get old and you start bringing out less each year. Eventually you dwindle down to just one box you pull out to decorate instead of five boxes. It sure is a lot easier. This is my first year of not buying a live Christmas Tree. I wasn't for sure how I would feel after it was decorated. Would it still feel like Christmas? I had still felt jolly each year even with less decorations out. But without the smell of a fresh cut tree, would it still feel like Christmas? The artificial tree I bought was much smaller than the fresh cut tree I would normally buy. That means I wouldn't have room for all the decades of ornaments I now owned. Just then someone very dear to me called. She had lost her ornaments in one of her many moves and asked if I could mail her the ones I wasn't going to need. She was excited to get a variety of old special ornaments and not have to buy new ones. That made giving up half my ornaments a joy to pass them on to her instead of saddness over getting rid of them. It was just what I needed to joyfully pick out my many special ornaments and hang them on my new forever tree. As I stood back to look at it after it was decorated it still brought the jolly feeling I was used to.  Now I decorate my house for Christmas by making robots out of each person's stack of presents in place of my many decorations I used to put out years ago. And best of all it's decorations I didn't have to drag out nor put back up each year. When you are older you finally understand the phrase "that less is more." As time goes by you begin to see things differently and you appreciate everything so much more.