Moving On

With 9 days left until Christmas I am in total Christmas-mode. We finished wrapping about 99% of our gifts last night. Christmas music, and good company, make wrapping not such a tedious thing. I'm always good about getting my Christmas shopping done well in advance...but I've been known to leave wrapping until extremely last minute. At which point I think how pointless it is to wrap the gifts since they will be unwrapped very shortly. Fortuntely, Dave was very much in the wrapping groove this year and we got everything done in a few nights. Now all we have to do is transport them safely to Connecticut.

Tonight, after dinner, we got hot chocolate at the local Wawa (I know, it's an incredibly funny name, but they had a "Merry Christmas" sign hanging up so they're my new favorite store!) and headed out to see some Christmas lights. There is such a range of decorating styles, from absolutely nothing to owning stock in the local energy company. There were a few houses we oohed and ahhed over and one even looked like a real-life gingerbread house. The morning talkshow host we faithfully listen to has started a campaign to bring back the "big, fat colored lights" that quite noticeably have been replaced by "boring and pretentious" white lights. He would be disappointed to know that we saw more white light displays than colored light displays. And while the white lights do give off a more elegant ambiance, the colored lights are defintely more fun to look at. They are more fun to look at, provided they aren't accompanied by those HUGE inflatible characters which are incredibly gaudy looking if more than one are in the same yard...in my humble opinion. One house had Santa and a reindeer standing side-by-side (and very disproportionate, which obviously means they were never intended to be side-by-side) and Frosty a few feet away waving at the both of them. Um...no. It's displays like this that make me wonder what their interior decorations look like all year round. Sorry, that was kind of mean. Anyway, we had a very fun Christmas-light-looking experience which will probably turn into a tradition since we've been doing it for the past few years.