Tree is done

 Small one this year, with just us it’s harder to wrangle a bigger one, and they’re expensive now 

We still have to put down the tree skirt.

Also getting ornaments from a storage box, I had the little jolt of  sadness of seeing my dad’s stocking. Yes, sometimes it still affects me. He really loved Christmas and was really more into doing all the things than my mom is, and I inherited that.

I do still miss him. Not as badly as earlier but it still sometimes comes back.