Commence au festival
YAY! It’s my favorite time of year again. Time to get the Christmas ‘woo’* put up again so that we can enjoy it for a few weeks before its time to take it down again. I really cannot relate to people who put their decorations up on Christmas Eve….it just seems so….well….wrong! Yesterday morning when I got up with the dogs – as is my lot in life because Keith does not budge at 5 AM – I fixed coffee and stuff and then began bringing totes from the basement up and attic down.
We – Keith – actually put the wreaths and stuff up outside yesterday because we heard that it was supposed to be rainy the rest of the weekend *looks outside….nope…no rain*.
Some of the outdoor greenery
Yeah I'm workin' the Bowdabra
I'm a sucker for flags.
I put most of my nutcrackers up yesterday too. Speaking of nutcrackers – I am MOST distressed that Bombay Co. closed, every year since we’ve been together, Keith has gotten me my annual Bombay Nutcracker. This year, when I visited my uncle in Halifax, I was happy, nay ECSTATIC to find a Bombay Company in a mall in Canada. I even made sure to get a nutcracker for 2008 TAKE THAT *thumbs nose* Bombay…you shall not thwart my tradition!
Nutcrackers on mantle
Nutcrackers on buffet
Now...all together!
Today we’ve been working on getting the trees put up. We do a big on in the living room and then, I have a skinny Nutcracker/Toy Soldier (surprise, surprise – right?) tree that goes in the dining room. Right now we’ve got one of the Mannheim Steamroller CDs going and he’s working on the big tree…..see:
Keith working on LRoom Tree
Fast Forward a bit to......
Okay, okay I guess I should really get off the computer and go help – after all, it is my favorite season and I’m sure I’ll hear about it later if I don’t. LOL. Off to trim the tanenbaum(s)!!
* – ‘woo’ is a word we got from Keith’s daughter Ashley that basically means ‘stuff’. There could be Halloween ‘woo’, Easter ‘woo’, Christmas ‘woo’, Birthday Party ‘woo’ – hmmmm seems mostly used as a replacement for decorations….
Yay! I love Christmas. We don’t get to put up our stuff till the 13th tho, it’s tradition that we put it up the weekend before my Mum’s birthday.