So the backstop. My dad had died earlier inthe year and my brother had decided to spend Christmas with his fiancees family. Friends had invited me to their house but it felt intrusive I was in my apartment feeling sad. There was a knock on the door but when I looked nobody there. I opened the door and found this on the step. It looks like something a child would make. There were few children in the building and inquiries the next day brought no results. To this day I have no idea where it came from but it cheered me up that Christmas. This happened over 40 years ago but it finds a space on my tree every year and has a special box to live in the rest of the year. It represents all that is good about Christmas to me. Best wishes everyone!

I encourage the kids to make ornaments that represent that year for them. My 7 y/o learned about the Titanic, so he painted an ornament of the sinking ship, with a glitter starry sky...

I love weird random tree decorations, i have a black christmas tree with squids, shrimps, vegetables and bats 😂