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Christmakah Celebrations

12/13/2015

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

Our Christmas tree is decorated! No, I don't have a picture yet, but trust me when I say it looks awesome. We do still need to put on some finishing touches, like the tinsel, but it looks great. Isn't it funny that decorating our Christmas tree was how we celebrated the last night of Hanukkah? I mean, we celebrated Hanukkah too, but it was still kind of funny the way we combined the two holidays! It was Christmakah... Christmas & Hanukkah put together!
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Surprisingly, none of the ornaments broke on the move down! I was so proud of my wrapping skills when we found everything in one piece. However, just because they made the trip in tact, doesn't mean they made it onto the tree that way. My little sisters were so excited in their rush to put the ornaments on the tree that a few did drop onto the brick floor in our entryway. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

My parents get us new ornaments every year that are personalized in some way. Sometimes they celebrate something that we have accomplished over the course of the year, like a graduation, first car, or new job. This year, my siblings and I received matching ornaments that celebrated the biggest event in our lives in 2015: our move!

On one side of the ornaments, my mom put a picture of each of us from when we got to hold the baby alligators a few weeks ago. As she put it, you couldn't get more "Florida" than holding alligators! On the opposite side, there was a special message. On the top it says, "Anywhere we're together is where we call home." The "O" in "Home" is the shape of the state of Florida. Underneath that were each of our names, and then our new town and the year. Each of our ornaments were a different color on the back, which made them each unique and special for us all. ​The ornaments were really beautiful, and I absolutely loved them... I thought they were the perfect touch for our tree this year.

We always get a family ornament as well, but it didn't arrive yet this year. We'll have to wait to put that one up. But we did look back through all of our old family ornaments, and it's amazing to see how our family has changed throughout the years. There were some that didn't even have my little brother's name on it, some that didn't have the twins... It's also fun to look back through all of our personal ornaments, and see when we were babies or making hand print snowmen in preschool; we've all grown so much throughout the years. And it was really nice to put up my brother's ornaments as well, and to think about him and our memories with him. I haven't talked to him about Christmas yet, but I'm hoping he has his own tree this year and will be able to celebrate even though he's not with us.

I hope that you're all enjoying the holiday season and that you're feeling festive as Christmas gets closer!

Thank you so much for your continued support! I look forward to sharing more stories about my experience with foster care, and hopefully hearing from readers who have questions or similar stories to share. I'm always willing to answer questions and hear about other experiences! Please don't forget to like and share my Facebook author page as well!

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Taylor

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Pam
12/18/2015 10:56:45 am

Taylor,

I love this post. I think if I had it all to do over again, I would have done what your family did with annual ornaments for each child. How very special to carry those ornaments onto your own family tree when you move out. Such great parents you have to have been able to do this for you.

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Taylor Faith Krigsman link
12/19/2015 11:24:51 pm

Hi Pam! This has really been a wonderful tradition for us over the years. Actually, I just thought of more I could write on the subject, so be sure to check out tonight's post! I love having special family traditions like this, because I think it's meaningful and gives you something to look back on each year. I'm glad that my parents started doing this!

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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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