Alden’s First Cookie, I mean Christmas
Just to get back on track, I’m going to skip over talking about the past few weeks and why there have been zero posts. I’ll likely address business and busy-ness during the holiday season at some point, but today, I’m just showing off a little something I like to call “Weird Aunt Merritt’s First of Many Weird Gifts to Alden.” Alden is my new nephew and first of the next generation of any of the kids on either side of my family. And he’s awesome.
My family and I decided to do a handmade Christmas this year and I thought it would be fun to make a Baby’s First Christmas ornament for the boy. I could customize it with his own name instead of just “baby” using my metal stamping set and he could keep it as an heirloom Christmas ornament. It was fun, but turned out looking like a cookie. A lot of my jewelry looks like candy, so I guess it makes sense. Still, not quite what I intended, but a keepsake nonetheless.
Delicious
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That ornament is awesome!! And yes Alden is definitely delicious!! I hope I can meet him soon.
Did I mention that we couldn’t wait to see what was in the Alden package? So we opened it Christmas eve. We three stood there trying to decide which was more precious: the beautiful ornament, the moment of love we all felt realizing this was the first of many Christmases as a family and that you made it that much more special, or Alden. Naturally, I teared up. Thanks.