Putting together the puzzle

Starting last Sunday, I've been putting together a Christmas puzzle.  I had purchased it last January, and waited throughout the entire year to put it together.  It is called "Decorating the tree" and it is bringing me such joy!  It is full of so many little different Christmas symbols and colors.  It is a family with four kids and grandparents decorating the tree with a winter wonderland outside...and there are two cats and a dog as well!  It is lovely.

It reminds me of my childhood.  Every year on the day after Thanksgiving my sister and I would go to my paternal grandparents and help decorate their tree.  This lasted through my high school years.  The tree then always came down on New Year's Eve when we would spend the night with them.  My entire childhood that is where I spent New Year's Eve.  We would take down the tree and we always had fun snacks during the night as we stayed awake until Midnight.  These are absolutely precious and cherished memories!