Lila Johnson's Blog - Posts Tagged "christmas"
Tis The Season
While watching the television show, Emergency, my mind wanders to how busy I've been in the last 72 hours.
I'm all about Christmas and for the past few days, I've spent my time decorating several places. First, my dad's house. I placed a white flocked tree on the staircase landing and gave it a soft woodland look with birds, berries and pine cones. I had to fight off my sister's cat while attempting to place sprays of bobbles throughout the tree branches.
The second spruce that sits in front of the window, has a colorful, bright whimsical look with ornaments of various themes and orgins;a Batmobile, snowmen made of glass, a miniature version of the board game Operation and so it goes.
If that weren't enough, I also decorated the entrance hall to look like Santa's packaging area complete with decorative boxes, tin containers, elfs and Santa sitting on top of it all while eating cookies and drinking hot cocoa.
Next, my apartment. A three foot tree with a snowman theme, (yes, I have a lot of snowmen)with an occassional Santa for good measure. Berries, glass bulbs and a few decorations from my recent trip to London and Paris finish out the look. The one foot bathroom tree(don't ask)displays my miniature ornament collection. Alice inside of the "Drink Me" bottle is adorable.
I completed my final tree at my place of business. Using stocking stuffers like lip balms, hand gels, Mr. Bubble, Silly Putty and candy canes for example, took the place of traditional ornaments.
So when someone asks, "Are you ready for Christmas?"
I say, "Yeah, bring it on!"
I'm all about Christmas and for the past few days, I've spent my time decorating several places. First, my dad's house. I placed a white flocked tree on the staircase landing and gave it a soft woodland look with birds, berries and pine cones. I had to fight off my sister's cat while attempting to place sprays of bobbles throughout the tree branches.
The second spruce that sits in front of the window, has a colorful, bright whimsical look with ornaments of various themes and orgins;a Batmobile, snowmen made of glass, a miniature version of the board game Operation and so it goes.
If that weren't enough, I also decorated the entrance hall to look like Santa's packaging area complete with decorative boxes, tin containers, elfs and Santa sitting on top of it all while eating cookies and drinking hot cocoa.
Next, my apartment. A three foot tree with a snowman theme, (yes, I have a lot of snowmen)with an occassional Santa for good measure. Berries, glass bulbs and a few decorations from my recent trip to London and Paris finish out the look. The one foot bathroom tree(don't ask)displays my miniature ornament collection. Alice inside of the "Drink Me" bottle is adorable.
I completed my final tree at my place of business. Using stocking stuffers like lip balms, hand gels, Mr. Bubble, Silly Putty and candy canes for example, took the place of traditional ornaments.
So when someone asks, "Are you ready for Christmas?"
I say, "Yeah, bring it on!"
So Much to Be Grateful For
Whew. What a crazy, insane and sad year we have been through. Mask mandates, riots, extreme unemployment, hunger, politics and a pandemic with a reported death toll of 300,000 as of December 14th 2020.
On this Christmas day, a sign of hope is needed. For some, it’s found in the new COVID-19 vaccines that have been released by the FDA. For others, it has been through personal prayers at home, work and in places of worship. As Americans, through all the ugliness that has transpired, kindness has outshined the dark and placed a sign, a light, that shows that we are strong and caring.
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
On this Christmas day, a sign of hope is needed. For some, it’s found in the new COVID-19 vaccines that have been released by the FDA. For others, it has been through personal prayers at home, work and in places of worship. As Americans, through all the ugliness that has transpired, kindness has outshined the dark and placed a sign, a light, that shows that we are strong and caring.
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
