Star Trek Ornaments

I put up all the holiday décor yesterday, and today the regular routine of winter living starts once again. The kids have gone home, the house is quiet and empty (equally pleasant and saddening), and with the tree down, the front room seems absolutely spacious. It was a very rewarding holiday season, though, and I have started off the New Year in fine style. I exercised, started the blog, and put the house in order, and went to a meeting. v.g.

Part of my holiday décor includes Star Trek ornaments. They plug into the string of lights, lighting up themselves, and some of them talk when the lights are initially plugged in. I have 9 or 10, all ships, from all the series. They have been gifts from a special friend who shares a similar like, from the X, and even from my mother (who is now gone, and I seriously laugh to think of my mom in Hallmark picking out a Klingon Bird of Prey!). The year of the dee-vorce, when celebrating the holidays was something I was going to skip, the oldest daughter literally forced me to purchase a fake tree from a local craft store, already lighted. When getting out the Christmas cards, I saw the Star Trek ornaments. They were in an easily identifiable box, and easily reached. Having gone as far as to get a tree, I decided a few ornaments were not out of line, seeing as how those were the ones I found. We are still enjoying that memory of a particularly bleak time. I love those ornaments on so many different levels.