It’s fifteen days until Christmas and all through the house not a thing has been done and I feel like a louse.
O.K time to give up my try-hard poem but it’s true, there are only two pressies under the tree and they are from my highly organized sister in law in the U.K. With the fickle weather I haven’t even strung up the lights in the front garden and no doubt many drive-bys are wondering what’s happened to the lights spectacular at No.6.
Things haven’t gone to plan like last year but before I tell you about that, here’s a little background: When we moved into our home we knew that we had a reputation to uphold being on one of the deemed Christmas lights streets. I bought some second hand lights from an old neighbour and set about turning our front yard into Times Square with a waving Santa, nodding reindeer and assortment of twinkling and flashing light sequences.
My hub said in the beginning, “babe, this is your gig if you want to do it, you’ll have to hang up the lights.” So the little red hen put up most of the lights with a little help from hub for the higher harder to reach strings and connections. It looked great and we got lots of tooting horns and walk-by commendations. My hub was hooked and ready to add on our display the following year – and help!
The kids have a book called Russell’s Christmas Magic by Rob Scotton. It is about the familiar character Russell the Sheep in his striped hat and his froggie friend from Frogsbottom Field. Santa crashes in Firefly Wood and is upset that he has been sighted and the sleigh is broken “Christmas must be cancelled!”
Russell sets about to save Christmas and get Santa airborne. The illustrations are very European with snow and lanterns and the northern sky. The rooftops are snowcapped and real Christmas trees are perched in the chimneys. It’s a lovely read about lending a hand and the illustrations are beautifully painted with shocked, happy and sad expressions on the sheep, Santa and the reindeers.
This book sowed the seeds for a tree out our chimney and we set about securing it, decorating it and stringing up some lights. It looked great and was on the list for this year.
Our tree is in place and ready to sparkle with tinsel and adornments but there is one slight problem. RAIN! We had so much of it the other night that it filled the tree’s pot, leaked into the roof and left a puddle that dripped through the ceiling.
The Europeans don’t have this problem because everything is frozen. Hopefully it’s the last of the rains and we can have a touch of Russell (minus frost) at our house this Christmas.
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