I've always loved Christmas, it brings joy to my heart and every year I do it large. I don't need to tell you that 2020 has been an utterly pants year, this year I'm fighting a losing battle not to bring Christmas forward to October.
My level one Christmas lights are up outside the house - 2,200 bright white fairy lights. When they're up it looks a disappointingly small amount, but as I say they are just phase 1. We haven't actually turned them on yet, except to double check they work. In December we will put up 15 Meteor Shower lights across the front of my house and I have one of those lights that shines on the house that makes it look like snow is falling.
I usually take part in the local Christmas tree festival. I start my tree in January and in fact it's already finished. A decoupage tree depicting the three kings. The Christmas tree festival has been cancelled because of COVID (booo). But there is a local competition to decorate a garden or a window. Obviously the 2,216 lights I mention above will not be enough. So I've also bought a 6 foot outside Christmas tree, with 850 blue lights on it. I'll wait until December to put that up as well.
EXCITING.
Husband tolerates this, he has no interest in Christmas, but is aware he's fighting a losing battle trying to stop me making the outside look like a landing strip and the inside look like a fairy threw up.
Halloween is going to be a let down this year, I'll not put pumpkins outside the house as I don't want loads of people at front door. Also will not take son out trick or treating. I've had an idea where husband and I will tear through the house with some sweets hiding behind each door, so son can trick or treat and get some goodies. I know lots of people say that Halloween is an American thing - and in many ways they are right. However as an army brat much of my childhood was spent on army bases with American kids. So I celebrated Halloween every year.
When we settled back in the UK I was most disappointed about how low key it was. Even these years it's still much less outrageous than it was in my childhood.
So how was I embarrassing today - and what's the hat about? Well with reference to the hat - obviously we have tin foil hats in the house available at all times, it stops the aliens from reading our thought patterns and the government being able to read our minds. Don't panic I'm not one of 'them' - it just makes me laugh and occasionally we wear them when people come around to freak them out. I'm also a huge fan of the film Signs and we wear them when we watch that....... Obviously.
Every morning a minibus turns up at our house to take son to school. I sit in a tub chair in the window keeping an eye out for it. It's a big window - essentially a french door at the front of the house (I know that's odd, the whole house is odd).
Minibus was a bit late this morning and I got bored. I told Alexa to play some Christmas music and when it played I started to dance with my arms. Son told me to stop in no uncertain terms as I was embarrassing. Still no sign of minibus so I put the tin foil hat on and got down to the Christmas music in a big way. Waving at my son to get his attention. Eventually I got his attention and he gave me a look - I turned back to see if minibus had arrived yet and there it was - right outside of the house and my tin hatted Christmas flailing had been visible to all of son's school colleagues.
Son was less than impressed - I feel a little proud of this...... is that wrong?
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