Day: September 18, 2018

Snowy Swings

The decorating morning was fun, but I do have some more ancient artifact from Selvadorada that I would like to release from their muddy prison, and then study. I’m not sure it will earn me any brownie points at the Museum, but when have I ever done anything because it would please the museum?

While I am burrowed inside my private little pool house, I can hear Mom and Dad “whee-ing” and “yaaaay-ing” as they make the most of our swingset, with no care about how low the outside temperature is.

Chitchat by the Winterfest Tree

I already have grand plans for Winterfest. Most of those plans involve food, but not only. I have costumes in mind. Costumes, grand decorations, food, Winterfest carols, piles of presents, and maybe, even, a special guest…

After all, we have a chimney now.

Decorating as a Family

Gram, Mom, Cléo, Cyril and I, gathered around the Winterfest tree. Cléo and I are still in our pajamas, because three days away from Winterfest, you’re allowed. I don’t make the rules.

Bare at the beginning, the tree progressively gets heavier and shinier as we throw onto its branches the garlands and the lights that Gram instructs us to, to make it look pretty… and then a few more, just because we feel like it.

It takes teamwork, and the results, in my humble opinion, are magical.

Decorating as a Family

Gram, Mom, Cléo, Cyril and I, gathered around the Winterfest tree. Cléo and I are still in our pajamas, because three days away from Winterfest, you’re allowed. I don’t make the rules.

Bare at the beginning, the tree progressively gets heavier and shinier as we throw onto its branches the garlands and the lights that Gram instructs us to, to make it look pretty… and then a few more, just because we feel like it.

It takes teamwork, and the results, in my humble opinion, are magical.

A Guest

It’s full-blown holiday season, and we have a tree to decorate and time to spend as a family.

None of us can imagine decorating the tree without the oldest and most artistic member of our family. If there ever was a parent figure for us, it is she, and she needs to be around today.

And she arrives dressed for the occasion.