The "Christmas Decorations at LDub's House" Story

It was an ordinary day. We are finally decorating for Christmas. Started about a week ago when our grandkids were here for Thanksgiving. They helped my wife get out the small artificial tree that we place in our family room. They helped her put it together and pull the branches into place and then decorate it with the lights and ornaments. Carol did most of the lights, but she stood back and let the three grandkids put the ornaments on. After they had left, she went back and moved most of the ornaments into a new position. Seems that almost all the ornaments were in the same one foot area. But, the excitement and joy that children have when decorating made it all worth while. Over the next week Carol and I added to the decorations. We set up our nine foot tree in the living room and Carol decorated it with a gadzillion ornaments. Ornaments that have been in the family since she and I were children as well as ornaments that we got last year from friends and family. Then I placed the traditional ornament on the top. An angel that we had purchased the first year we were married. Pretty neat! She finalized the tree decorating with strands of artificial pearls. Beautiful, and it sparkles in the dark. Carol also has collections of Santas which she displays different places in the house as well as a collection of nutcrackers. She usually gets a Santa or nutcracker from someone every year as a gift. Then she arranges one of her favorite presents that she got from her friend Marg. They have know each other since they delivered their firstborns together. Marg made her an entire 18 piece miniature Nativity scene out of a special dough she made. Painted every piece. It is truly beautiful and a fantastic gift. I got our herd of reindeer down from out storage above the garage, plugged them in to test them, had to repair one of them, and placed them in their usual positions in the yard. Ran some lights around the garage door and a few by the front porch and we are now officially decorated! Festive holiday decorations and lights always gets us in the mood for celebrating the birth of Jesus. Hope your holiday decorations gets you in the mood also. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - Photos from the tops are: Carol being helped with the setting up of the Christmas tree by Courtney, Camille, and Caden, Carol working on the decorating of our tree in the living room, some of my favorite ornaments have a beach theme to them, a few of my favorite Santas from Carol's collection, and part of Carol's Nativity that was made for her by her friend Marg.