For The Love Of Christmas Light

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by Ryan McKenzie @DrBoneMonkey (Is it you? Click to confirm)

Show me a child who doesn't love a wondrous smattering of Christmas light and you will have a child who has never seen them at all. There are even people who decorate their whole town and let people drive through all the streets. Winding down this street and then this one. You just can't turn your head fast enough. To see children and even adults hanging out of the windows with awe in their eyes and their mouths wide open at the sheer splendor of such a sight. Part of the wonder is that it only happens once a year. So the enjoyment lasts from right after Thanksgiving or at least December 1st., until a week after New Year's.

Prices vary. The length of the strands vary. How many do you want on a strand? 50? 100? 200? Do you want them solid colors or one color? Do you want them to blink or no blinking? The biggest decision after all that is how much Christmas light do you want. Just a little around a window? Just the front door? Or how about the windows and the front door? What about the bushes along the porch? Then there is the awning around the roof. The trees in the yard. Maybe even the mail box. It can boggle the mind.

Once you start covering everything it is hard to stop. And that is just on the outside of the house. What about the inside. You have the tree of course. And that has a few strands. So now how much Christmas light do you want on the inside. Just the front room? Do you have a fireplace so you can do the mantel? How about around the walls just below the ceiling? Well, now you have to include the dining room. Wouldn't the hutch look marvelous with some twinkling lights around the top.

Talk about feeling like a kid again and again, every year. No matter where you grew up, in the city or in the country, in a house or an apartment or a trailer, the anticipation was for December to get here as soon as possible. Sure the presents were important. But it was being able to put the ornaments on the tree that you had made when you were a kid. What about that little star your child made in school. Or the angel they made in vacation Bible school to put on the top of the tree. Did you not have a tear come to your eye when they so proudly put it on the tree.

There is just something about Christmas light that makes the heart merrier. To even lose some of the worries of the past year. Or even of that very day before you took the time to drag out all the boxes with xmas decorations on them. Memories of other times and other places sweep over your mind. The smells of the holiday that have you wanting to hear the laughter of those times gone by. And in that moment hearing the joy as another treasure is pulled out of the box. Can anything be more wonderful than the Christmas light.

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