The lights are up. I went for the net lights on the bushes. Our bushes used to be too small for lights but time moves on and so do the bushes. Yeah! No ladders. I am happy with them. Fairly satisfying. They twinkle. I ran out of extension cords so that's it for this year but next year...More nets! More extension cords! I may be the only one who enjoys them but so what.
Yesterday my son informed me that the whole" Joy of the Season Thing " was wasted on him. And my daughter asked why having things under the tree to open was such a big deal. "I don't want you to pick out things for me". I want to do the shopping. Okay. At lunch my girlfriend said she exchanged the necklace her husband bought her last year for a better one... I guess that is okay since it was a lot of money but somehow...
The one thing they do seem focused on is the COOKIES. Both kids want to know when the cookies making will begin and "Aren't you starting a little late this year?" I guess it will start when I lose the fifty pounds all those other cookies added to my petite frame!
I am having my lunch bunch over for a cookie exchange so the baking will actually have to begin. Tamales and cookies. I am making tamales for lunch which it turns out only one of my friends has ever had. The one who lived in Texas. I am always reminded of how radically different parts of the country are from one another. Bill, I actually miss the paper bags and the sand! One year a friend sent me a string of chili peppers to hang by the front door for the holidays which is common practice in New Mexico. The UPS man refused to ring my bell. I assumed he thought the chili pepper might rub off on him. Or maybe he thought it was an evil charm to ward people off..
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So we've just finished reading "The Long Winter", one of the Little House on the Prarie Books. Laura's family is supposed to get a barrel of Christams present sent by train, but the weather gets so bad that the trains can't get through until May, and the whole town nearly starves to death.
But all the kids are very happy with their presents-- a new dress, a shawl, etc.. when they arrived in May.
Perhaps you can suggest celebrating a traditonal American Prairie Christmas this year.
If we send you the paper bags and candles, can you procure your own sand locally (it seems very ungreen to ship sand from UT to NY)...
I tried to put out the luminarias one year but people wanted to know why I had MacDonald's bags all over my yard!
I saw an ice mold in a catalog that is used to make ice luminaries. It looked neat, but you'd either have to have a lot of molds or start making them long before you needed them. And then you'd have to store them in a freezer because it's not consistently cold enough this time of year to put them outside. The paper bags are sounding better and better.
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