Kelle Hampton of Enjoying the Small Things
Kelle Hampton lives with her husband Brett; his boys, Austyn and Brandyn; and her girls, Lainey and Nella. She celebrates life and its opportunities to be fully present by sharing musings and photographs regularly on her award-winning blog.
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Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Future
Call me crazy, but I swear I remember my nursery from when I was a baby. It was yellow—or so I've been told. On the wall across from the crib, there was a framed picture of a Precious Moments character who was looking up at a hill with three crosses. Or maybe I made that up. Somehow though, whether created from stories and pictures passed down or drawn from near dormant infant subconsciousness, I've built up this memory of standing in my crib and scanning that sunny little nursery with the Precious Moments frame.
The older I get, the more faded my past grows—the depth of time between now and then slowly dissolving details that were once clear. Like classmates' names, birthday parties, a vivid layout of our tri-level home on Horseshoe Drive.
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