Most of us would have our trees up by now. Which ornament floods you with emotion, makes you smile or brings back a cherished memory?

I love every one of those on my tree since most are hand made or were bought at special times or have some memory attached to it. My favorite is a china open heart with the stars and stripes decorating it. There is a 3 dimensional dove in the center of the heart and the word PEACE written in gold at the bottom.

It was given to me by a former student who would visit me at school when he was home from the service..... with just too many trips to Iraq.

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My two favorite ones are the ones I painted when I was 5 years old, they are a wooden Christmas tree and a candy cane

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I have several.....

Some that my dh made when he was little, all the ones my girls have made, a black lab angel ornament I got in South Lake Tahoe about 2 weeks after we had our beloved black lab put down, a Macy's shopping bag ornament I got in NYC when I went Christmas shopping with a gf (best freaking time shopping too.....we got on the subway at 7am and didn't get back to her dad's till 11pm!), my three I Love Lucy ornaments, and my sparkly yellow lab glass ornament I just got a couple of months ago in the Poconos.

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The ones that are my favorite of course are the ones each one of my children made in kindergarten, they are a star shape and are decorated by them and in the front is a small picture of them. Those will be cherished forever and ever. Peace. Catherine

I love all the pinecones dipped in glue and glitter by my girls when in preschool! Priceless, as you all know for yourselves.

My favorite non-family one is a reindeer that my best friend from H.S. made me out of a big red bell for the body and some fabric. I love it.

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Mine is just a plain purple ball. But I have fond memories of a Santa one and a house that my mom and dad would fight over. Each would say it was theirs. Was fun to hear them argue about it.

I love the ones the kids have made for me over the years. It's hard to believe they grow up so very fast.

I don't have just one favorite because most of my ornaments are from trips I've taken/gifts from friends, etc.

But I do have a great story about a pair of earrings I hang on the tree every year. Back when I was graduating from college, my roomies and I were very close. Several of us were graduating at the same time so the one roomies boyfriend(now husband)went and got gifts for us, all on his own. My gift was a HUGE pair of pierced earrings with the Penn State logo on them, think giant dangly blue balls with logos on them. However, I did not have pierced ears. I was just going to let that fact go but the others pointed the fact out. He felt terrible but I said it was ifne that I would just hang them on my Christmas tree since they were balls and already had hooks in them. Every year since then I've hung them on my tree and when I do I stop and think about all the fun we had back in those days.

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