This is the Noel tree of my parents this year 2023. A fake tree for years (not when we were young) and a manger I built at 15 at school. Dad added the light bulb in it. The people in the manger are from my 15 years old too. 

I am drinking my Kilkenny beer as a memory of 2000 when I worked like mad full time at making good money. In many ways, i wish I could be in quebec this Noel. But i cannot contemplate visiting ever again unless BJG comes with me I think. I am totally shocked by Montreal from nostalgia overwhelming feeling.