Not completely a Grinch

I wasn't always all, "Bah, Humbug!" although I know I've sounded like it the last few days. I used to be terribly into Christmas. (I suspect that I'm partly having backlash from years of holiday overload.)

I was nosing around my Flickr pictures again, and here's our tree in 2002:

I had so many ornaments that they didn't even all fit on the tree.

I had a fairly substantial collection of holiday doo-dads, too. I still have some of this stuff.


Ha, here's my nephew, from some Christmas past:
 
I had forgotten this picture completely. I don't know what year it was, but that child is 21 now, so it must've been sometime in the mid-to-late 90s!( more pictures... )