We drove around looking at Christmas lights this evening while listening to Christmas music, bringing along eggnog and containers of homemade cookies. We went tonight before all of the snow melts in this ludicrously warm weather and there were some houses still with yards full of snow, perfect for shiny light displays and the holiday season. We liked a house decked out in light blue lights with lit deer in the yard, a house with natural stick deer standing in the snow, lots of colonial houses with candles in every window and wreaths on the door, plus all manner of idiosyncratic trees and bushes and "puffy plastic" figures, including one yard with several different puffy plastic snowmen. Not as many inflatables as years before, except that one house in town that always has several and another with a dinosaur opening a present; our neighbor who usually has several doesn't have any this year. In retrospect, tonight for lights was apropos, it being Solstice, with its focus on light in the darkness.
Now the kids are downstairs sleeping in front of the Christmas tree, having their Solstice "camp out," which entails staying up as long as they want and doing whatever they want (provided it's not screen time.) We're not sure how long it will last--they often come back upstairs before midnight, both of them since neither will sleep downstairs alone--but they were planning reading, rainbow looming, opening their advent calendars for tomorrow at the stroke of midnight, and "shaking our presents without opening them!"
Happy Solstice, friends!
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