Flashback Friday!

This Christmas Flashback Friday is dedicated to my grandmother (Oma). I have the coolest damn Oma in the whole world! She is the matriarch of the family and the root of all our absurdity. Oh yes… lunacy runs deep in this family. At some point during grade school my sister, Laurie, and I began decorating Oma’s house and Christmas tree for the season. Once the job was complete we were always rewarded with tea and cookies, which were usually accompanied by some amazing story from her long life. We would listen to her fabulous lifetime stories from her childhood, the war, or her journey to America with five children in tow. As time went on and lives changed, Laurie abandoned the Yule Tide duties but I carried on the tradition! On Saturday, December 6th, 2008 I kept my annual appointment with one of the greatest ladies in my world, and with the help of Travis, we brought her Christmas tree to life for another magical season. Gazing up at her beautiful tree that holds so many cheerful memories she thanked us with big hugs and kisses, and yes, we were offered tea and cookies. (Although this years story was about Buffalo wings and the fact that she finds the idea perfectly absurd because buffalos are entirely too big for those little wings! To which she laughed heartily at her own little joke…I told you she was a nut!) My Oma is 97 years old, and I told her that for as many Christmas’ that she is willing to give me… I will always be there to decorate her tree.

Me & Oma, December 06, 2008...

And Our Beautiful Tree...