Categories: rejoice-with-me
Tags: Christmas
Date: 19 December 2007 17:23:05
I'm not at all sure that's the correct declension, but you get what I mean. We have a tree, son and I have decorated it, and it is filling the house (well, the lounge at least) with Christmas fragrance. It's far too big as usual - they always look smaller in the street than in the house. But it looks good, and I am full of a sense of achievement. And I also took the branches I'd trimmed to make it less wide, and made them into a lovely bushel sort of thing to hang from the curtain pole, with glitzy artificial flowers on it. And I've put the cards in the card hangers. And I got mistletoe and tied it to the hall spotlights with gold tinsel.
Tomorrow I might even bake some mince pies! Meanwhile there are only about a hundred presents to wrap, and cards to write to people who sent us cards but weren't on my list, not to mention two festive meals to prepare, and a boy to keep occupied... am I really so sure I like Christmas?
BTW I wrote the Prayer for the Week yesterday instead of tree shopping. So that's another task done.
PS I do have to tell my Christmas tree joke, about the boy who had heard 'O Tannenbaum' sung but hadn't quite got the words, and went round singing 'Atomic bomb, atomic bomb..'