We are now in our home for the third Christmas. As always, we are without the festive spirit. This is not to say that it will not eventually come. Like the years past, we have been ankle deep in dust, paint chips being stripped from baseboards, bags of sawdust, and so on. There isnt a room that is suitable for a Christmas tree.
Our first year was spent in the Carriage House. We had a lovely little tree that stood about 18" high that I picked up from the florist section of the grocery store. It was one of those cute little trees that came with a package full of little lights and miniture ornaments. It was carefully set up on the end of the blanket box that sat just off centre of one of the windows. I proceeded to place tiny presents around the tree. Eventually, we lost sight of it as the pile of presents grew. As the time approached closer to Christmas, our spirit grew and parties were created and friends were invited to share Holiday Cheer and good food. As always, with minimal kick start approximately three days before Christmas, we found the true meaning of giving and had a wonderful time. Christmas day around the Wolverton House was full of buzzing saws and swinging hammers...as always.
Our second Christmas became a bit more sophisticated with an eight foot tree this time. And we set it up in an appropriate spot between the windows in our parlour. Again, I was slow getting the spirit but did eventually start to dress the tree in our traditional manor of 'anything eatible'. There were gingerbread cooking, sugar cookie, Ferraro Chocolates, marshmello treats, candy canes and much much more. The presents arrive too. Lots of them. I even got into the spirit of making sock monkeys for everyone. Im sure there must have been at least two dozen socks cut and shaped for everyone special to us. As always Christmas came with great cheer and giving and food galor! We were even invited to a "lobster feast"...with one catch...that we provide the dining room! And we did and had 15 of our favourite people there to celebrate.
It is now Christmas 2009 and as usually it is ten days before Christmas. I splurged this year and purchased two cedar and spruce urns that sit on either side of the front door (which BTW only took me from June to October to strip, sand, straighten out, repair and paint...another story). There is nothing going on inside yet except for a few Christmas Cards, company gifts (one very, very nice 18" tree with little lights and mini ornaments that sits on the dining room table) and all the candy/cookie/chocolates in a huge bag waiting for the Christmas tree to arrive. We have discussed where the tree will sit this year, should we finally decide to purchase one. We have waivered back and forth about going to visit my aunt in the US. Although we have B&B guests, we can still leave if we choose to. We still have ten days to decide what we are going to do. Still nothing really planned yet. We breifly discussed today, going shopping to get presents for Justin. Although he is seventeen now, he is a dye-hard fan of Santa and we wouldnt want to disappoint our "baby". We will miss the gift giving with the older kids as one is off in Australia and the other in Nova Scotia now. One is planning to vacation three weeks in India, leaving right after Christmas day. But we will set up a tree and dress it in the traditional manor with all the cookies, candies and sweets that have been specially collected. ...and our invitation for Lobster Feast came this year...or rather next year as we are planning to "pig out" on January 2, 2010.
"Tim the tool man" and I plan to work hard as always before, during and after Christmas celebrations and plan to have our laundry room well on it's way to completion...and a bed sitting in the master's room.
A Merry Christmas to all who read this...and an open invitation to come and join us during the holidays. Join us in our dining room and enjoy sweets from the tree and enjoy Irish/Spanish/hot chocolate and/or coffee with scoops and scoops of real whipped cream!
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