Here are some pics of the setting up of our Christmas tree. We didn't get all gathered around the Christmas tree to decorate it as a family project, for Mum and I had something else up our sleeves:
At the dark of night two figures crept out the side door. A great deal of noise they made, but the house remained silent, no one stirred.The journey was not long, and the two stepped out into an opening where which shone a light. The garage door was flung open with rattling fury, and a large box dragged from its high perch on the uppermost shelf. The younger one nearly let out a cry as a large spider fled the scene, the box balanced unsteadily and was let go of as she jumped back. She realised her folly too late and the box fell, the cat leaping from its path, very nearly losing one of its lives.
Well, after that expedition, Mum and I set up the tree in secret, the boys sleeping in their beds at the time. And, my! were they excited when they awoke the next morning!
A bauble....
Another bauble
The tree looks splendid at night with the lights glowing!
And almost as splendid during the day.
Today, we looked for a quote or two to add for reasons of festivity.
Here are those two:
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton
Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish. ~Benny Hill
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth,
good-will to men!~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ~Dr. Seuss
Love Bek
2 comments:
That Calvin and Hobbs one is a classic!
And I almost like the Jewish one just as much...tickles ones sense of humour : )
heh! me too! Iv never heard the Jewing one! Its really funny!
Nice one Bec....:)
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