I know it's still Thanksgiving week, and I'm not usually one to jump ahead. It is an ordinance in our household that thou shalt not put up any Christmas decorations until December 1st. I hate all the brouhaha, and how Christmas decorations are out on the shelves of the stores as soon as they pull off the Halloween candy. Poor Thanksgiving gets overlooked. But this IS a good week to put up the Christmas lights outside.
Christmas lights have always been an interesting topic of discussion at our house. There are various opinions on what would look just right. Sometimes the words "tacky" and "gaudy" are thrown around. You see, Nate has a thing for blue lights, and I lean towards white. Since we have lived here, we have had beautiful white icicle lights wrapping around three sides of our house. Obviously not the back, who sees that anyway? Nate has lovingly, without complaining, and with a cheerful heart, climbed up on the roof every year to bejewel our house. Ok, that is an outright lie. He climbs up the ladder, usually grumbling and scowling. You see, he likes the lights to be perfect. He buys the little clips and makes sure that they are all evenly spaced. He usually spends a couple hours up there, freezing off his fingers. And without fail, every single year, a section of the lights doesn't light. Poor Nate.
Of course our family loves to take a drive, sometime in December, to look at all the displays and voice our widely varying opinions on what is classy, tacky, and just plain fun. Surprisingly, our little town has lot of all three. While browsing around on the glorious internet, Nate stumbled across this. You are definitely going to want to watch that. The whole thing. I don't know if you will have to save the file or what, just make it happen. The rest of this paragraph will not make sense to you if you don't. Now if your Christmas lights display experience is enhanced by listening to a rock opera, yay for you. What a combo! Ok, I will come clean, I downloaded some of their songs. Shhh, don't tell anyone. But we have to draw the line somewhere, there will be no synchronization at our house. It's just going to be some plain old white icicle lights, probably with some sections burnt out, much to my husband's dismay. Don't come driving by until December 1st, they won't be plugged in.
In the meantime enjoy your turkey, your family, and be thankful that 80's Hair bands are extinct....almost.
8 comments:
You are too funny - where did you find that? Harry likes the lights perfect, too. So we have to buy little clips first - not the adhesive ones. He's very much against those. I like the white ones too. Good call.
We are doing the ever-tasteful white icicle lights this year. Secretly, I like the more Griswaldian displays. And I am 100% in agreement over the timing. It has to be December.
I wish you and your beautiful family a wondeful Thanksgiving Day, Heather.
My boyfriend introduced me to this little video clip yesterday. Congratulations on the lack of synchronization at your house - this particular demonstration is the current ideal of what our Christmas light display should someday be. This is what I have to look forward to. There is no hope of anything ever being simple for me.
I'm telling you...THESE are the issues that need to be discussed in pre-marital counseling.
Yes, I am making a list right now. :-)
Ok, Titus and Luke went wild over your mulit-faceted blog entry. They are dying to own a CD of the music. Glad to hear Walmart has it. They can't wait to share the joy with Kevin and Gabe. I'm sooooo glad I don't live across the street from that house, ha, ha! So many things to be thankfu for that we don't even realize!
When your father watched the light display he said and I quote, " I always wanted the twinkly lights when we were first married, but you wouldn't let me; look what point I could have been to by now."
That light display is incredible!
Wow!
Okay, yeah, we have a lot of the Christmas rock opera songs. they are all good.
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