Got Christmas ornaments ?

Every year after Christmas I am drawn to one of my favorite activities..... shopping for reduced Christmas tree ornaments.I have never been a theme tree person as I remember, for years, walking through Christmas tree lane at Kraynak's ( a semi local store that does a display with many many Christmas scenes all in a row which includes about 50 decorated trees) and thinking..... some of these trees are kind of cute ( others not so much) but nothing can compare to my tree which has all kinds of ornaments from our children's' Precious Moments first Christmas ornaments,several other Precious Moments ornaments, ornaments that I got as gifts as a teenager, ornaments that Mike and I picked out for the tiny tree in our first apartment for our first Christmas as a married couple, ornaments that we bought to commemorate things in our lives (Cindy's tiny graduation hat with 2008 on it ,a tiny replica of the cruise ship from our first cruise last year, and so many other things including some not so happy occasions that have shaped our lives like a few beautiful angel's that were bought in memory of our Daughter Caitlyn, who was stillborn going on fifteen years ago. For us, our tree is a Hodge podge of our lives and , to me anyway, it is the most beautiful tree anywhere. The problem is that since I shop every year and I tend to buy more than just the few that I need to replace as some have broken or gotten so ragged that I must say good bye, I now have bins of ornaments. This past Christmas,life was very hectic so I welcomed Michael putting up and decorating the tree. I did tell Michael to leave off the porcelain Precious Moments figures and other highly breakables as I feared that the new puppy might cause some breakage, But when Michael and I took the tree down, I didn't see many of my favorite ornaments." Where is this " I asked? "How about that one?"Michael just looked at me.Finally after a slight bit of anxiety, we realized that there was a whole bin that we never even opened this year. So this brings me to my dilemma,do I keep buying ornaments ? I surely must keep up with buying the kids each a new ornament every year, shouldn't I ? I already limit it to only ornaments that have some sort of meaning ( Oh and the train replica ornaments that Mike likes to get every year, but I guess that is meaning huh ?)I'm sure that once the kids get their own places, they will want some cherished ornaments, so that will probably thin me out a bit but what if their spouse is into theme trees? Don't all mother-in laws/ daughter in laws have opposite tastes from time to time ? Should I even bother ? I guess that since I don't yet have an answer, I will simply keep on shopping !