The decorations went up even earlier this year! And we got the name of the exterior lighting company from our neighbors so we had the house and walkway outlined in white lights. John lit and hung the giant wreaths in the peaks. I'm not sure what I'll do next year if the Boy Scouts return to their pancake breakfast and stop selling wreaths! One huge change with Christmas lights in the post-COVID and a hybrid work environment is that I am only driving into the neighborhood two evenings a week. Seeing lights on the houses is definitely the bright (literal and figurative) of the dark winter commute.
Inside, Sir Albert Kristoff returned to his spot in the entry way announcing the Disney Christmas tree. It was very late in the season before we got the Disney train set displayed but William did have his advent calendar under this tree and used the lights of the tree each morning to unwrap his treasure. I enjoy using it as the night light (or more appropriately, morning light) to gently wake up.
While I don't spend very much time on the couch, one evening leading up to the holidays, I did sit down long enough to enjoy some cocoa that William made. I'm sure this was one of the evenings that he and I were on our own while John was traveling, so we enjoyed dinner and a TV show together instead of each doing our own thing.
Couple more photos of the house after some snow. Not all of these are holiday decor photos. But I love how it feels like living in a snow globe! Especially since we have an entire mantle of snow globes on display at Christmas.
On theme with Disney + nutcrackers, I got these tabletop nutcrackers this year to accompany my countdown calendar. I never really played them, but thought they looked cute in the kitchen window! Christmas morning there were two of us up early and one who was not.....which is actually a pretty usual day. So we had coffee and started the cinnamon rolls baking and waited out our elf. At least that's what I was calling him because I have no idea what time he went to bed. I just know that there were a lot more presents under the tree and in the stockings when I woke up than when I went to bed and I'm not sure where any of it was hiding!
I forgot we had a photo of the tree before it was fluffed and decorated! John took a photo of William when I was out of town since we was dressed up for his 8th grade graduation photo. Sometimes (a lot of the time!) I can't believe how grown up he's gotten each year in middle school!
