I don’t know about you, but taking down the Christmas decorations is not a happy task. Putting up the decorations can be stressful, especially because before Christmas we have so much to do. I tried this year to enjoy all of my Christmas activities, like writing our names in the cards, and making the newsletter, fluffing the tree up (Ron assembles and I’m the designated fluffer) and my quilted wall hangings, etc. My daughter, Lisa, and I made candy and cookies together. We only burned one tray, which happens pretty much every year.
I tend to put it off taking down the decorations in January (I usually don’t do it on New Year’s Day like a lot of people I know.) as much as possible. I have several decorations, mostly from Hallmark, that are snowmen that sing and move. I love those decorations. I am sure Ron is tired of hearing the music from them. This year I got a Snoopy that dances, and a Gnome that sings “There’s no place like Gnome for the holidays”. It dances in a circle and is so funny. I will have real trouble stuffing that in a box to put in our garage. Sometimes I wonder if the ornaments that are stuffed animals, or dolls, or the snowmen that sing, or teddy bears actually communicate with each other in the garage during the long time between January and December. What would they say?
Our snowman with snow boy sings a song about the cutting down the Christmas tree. He might say: “Gee are we back in the garage again? It was such fun being out on the coffee table for a month. We could see the beautiful tree with all the lights and toys on it.”
Snowman playing the piano: “I know. But didn’t that cat knock you off and pull on you onto the floor a few times?”
First Snowman: “Yes; that happened, but the lady rescued me and had me sing again. By the way why didn’t the cat knock you off?”
Piano Snowman: “She tried and she has mitten paws and teeth, you know, but the lady stopped her in time; and I think she just gave up and pulled a little red stocking off the tree and ran off with it.”
A Teddy bear comments: “Are you two complaining again? I just take a long nap in between Christmases. It works for me.”
Of course this probably isn’t really happening in the garage, but I can imagine that it could. Well, I am going to stop writing now and make Snoopy and the Gnome dance and sing. I hope you are having a good day and are enjoying January. I do leave a few winter decorations up like my quilted wall hanging with the deer, and my snowman wall hanging in the bathroom. I made both of those; and I like to see them on the cold winter days. Our cat Ella, denies everything. She doesn’t know anything about those snowmen toys, or the missing red stocking. She is telling me this while she runs off with one of my white socks in her mouth.
Ron
While I love my wife’s imagination, I really doubt the decorations are sentient. However, they did cause a disagreement. The Snowman and snow boy could only get through about a quarter of their song. Then they stopped. Crystal continued to try over and over again. It drove me nuts. I suggested we get rid of it. Crystal would have none of that. She hates to throw anything out. It’s still a wonderful decoration, she said. I thought, ‘it could decorate the garbage can.’ Eventually, I gave up. OK…the mechanism was completely inaccessible. I used all of my mechanical knowhow. I purposely and forcefully dropped it on the floor. Crystal was amazed when she came down the next morning and the device worked like new. She asked what I did. I told her, just a little engineering trick…….Please don’t tell her.
