The "Celebrating Christmas: LDubs House All Aglow!" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Just finished putting up our holiday lights for the upcoming Christmas celebration.  Since we moved into our "Beach House" in the mid-1990s we have decorated with a variety of outdoor lights as well as a beautiful tree and indoor lighting.  We don't cover our house with lights or have a specific theme for our lights as many of our neighbors do, but our house still looks great inside and out when Christmas arrives.  I must admit we bought an indoor artificial tree years ago which stands about eight feet tall.  We switched to the artificial tree, since the year before we bought a really expensive large tree from a fellow teacher who had a tree stand and who delivered it to our house later the same day, but happened to put it in front of the garage door and when I backed the car out I ran over it and snapped a few important branches off.   Now, our tree looks great every year we take it out of the extremely big box.  Our outdoor decorations now consist of a strand of lighted icicles over the garage door, a decorated sled on the front porch and a herd of lighted deer amongst the seven English walnut trees to the side of our house.  I must admit, they look great!  Inside the house, Carol loves her small artificial tree that she decorates in the kitchen/family room as well as the eight foot one in the living room.  We have so any beautiful ornaments that we have collected over the years.  Many are beach related while others have special sentimental value.  I have featured many favorite ornaments over the past years of writing my blog and if you type "ornaments" in the white box at the top left of this story, you can view some of them.  Even thought our children and grandchildren are no longer youngsters, we still hang their hand-made stockings from the evergreen-wrapped railing on the second floor directly inside our front door.  To give you a better idea as to how we decorate for the Christmas holiday, check out the following photographs.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

The second floor landing has greens and all the family stockings.

On the front porch sits our old sled that is decorated with greens and lights.

This small artificial small tree is in the family room by the back door.

Our large eight foot decorated tree in our living room.