Merry Christmas Colette!

Today after Bridgett and I picked up Aaron from school we went to put up Colette's Christmas Wreath.  I wanted to do it last weekend while Dusty was home but it was freezing and we didn't think it was a good idea to take the sick kids out into the cold.  So we did it today and Daddy stopped by on his way home form work to see how it looked.  You can't see it but we put Solar Christmas lights on her wreath,  Aaron was concerned that she would not have Christmas lights so we did the best that we could at fixing that.  It seemed to please Aaron that Colette would have a piece of his fav part of Christmas with her.  We will have to go back one night and see how they look.  The kids helped me to decorate her wreath,  it has red and silver balls on it with red snow men.  We saved a snow man ornament to put on our tree so that we can have a little bit of Colette's wreath at our house too.

After we got done putting up her wreath I looked around the cemetery and actually started to feel bad.  Compared to  a lot of the other wreathes there hers looked rather shabby.  It was obvious that a lot of people spent lots of money on their Christmas decorations for their loved ones.  Many of them were made from Real living pine, with beautiful ornaments and ribbons.  And while we put lots of love into Colette decorations they were by no means expensive.  I had to tell myself that Dusty and I had decided that we would take the money that we would have spent on Colette Christmas and give it to someone who needed it more than we did.  So while her little wreath is not all that to look at compared to many of those around her,I have  to keep reminding myself that we choose to do something else with her money and I think what we choose to do would make her very happy.  And as Mom said,  spending even hundreds on her Christmas decorations would not make us miss her any less or change how we are feeling this holiday season.  That the decorations we leave are not a sign of how much we love her, only that we love her and that the things we leave at her grave are not for her but for us.

Merry Christmas Colette,  We love you!  We miss you and we are so grateful that you are a part of our family Forever!  Please know that you are VERY missed every day and especially this holiday season.