The Christmas tree is up, 35" Ideal Shirley Temple doll in her pink frilly party dress with a pink bow adorning her curls, standing beside it "decorating tree" with candy canes, a teddy bear, toy soldier and sock monkey sitting on the the tree skirt among the 3 already wrapped presents with giant red bows on each, Elf on the Shelf sitting by the standing Raggedy Ann doll across the room on the DVD antique cart. No poinsettias out yet but they're coming. I have lots of potted silk ones stored away in the garage - enough to fill the den if I want. But now, I'm tired and it's time to kick back with a chilled apple cider with cinnamon stick and a slice of fruit cake, Tibbe lying beside me on the couch(he's tired from supervising all the decorating and barking a lot when I got it wrong), watch the classic but colorized Miracle on 34th Street on AMC tonight! Best time of the year!
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |