Joyce and I were looking forward to having the children come Wednesday night and see our Christmas lights. (Thursday night was the rain date) Unfortunately, the weather forecast is calling for rain the next several days so we have decided to postpone the lights until next week—hopefully Wednesday, December 28.
We had our grandson Parker, who will be two next month, over the weekend and he was fascinated by the lights. He especially loves Frosty the Snowman. Ella Rae, who celebrated her second birthday November 13, has named all of the lighted animals. We have Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, Rudolf’s daddy and Rudolf’s mommy. One deer is eating G-Mommy’s flowers and Ella Rae will point her finger at it and sternly say, “No, No!” Parker and Ella Rae both love the cow and the pig who are standing on the front porch bearing gifts!
We’ve spent a lot of time in December restringing lights that are burned out. That means the lights are old—gee I guess I’m getting old too!
You might recall that two years ago I didn’t have a light display. Bad weather, conflicts, one thing after another kept me from getting the lights up, but I decided that I would at least light the “Merry Christmas” sign. After laying all of the electrical cords I plugged it in only to find the “M” was burned out. The sign was saying, “erry Christmas”
Sometimes we feel more like an “erry Christmas” than a “Merry Christmas.” But this year all of the letters are burning brightly to proclaim a heartfelt, “MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
Except when it rains, then the moisture short-circuits my lights and trips the breaker! And then I don’t have any lights which is why we will have to wait until next week. But we will still be celebrating Christmas! (Remember the Twelve Days of Christmas?) We hope all the children can make it out to our house next week. Stay tuned to this blog and Facebook for details!
We can't wait to see the lights! We had outside lights long before we even had a tree up! Merry Christmas!
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