I had been pleading with my husband for years to let me get Christmas lights. I love the cheery light on the short days of winter and wanted to have my own to plug in each night. We had finally gotten one little string of lights for our Waldheim home and then we moved… and forgot them there…
Well it must be official! We must be in our own home again because we put up lights! We have graduated from one little string to four! I am so happy every night I plug them in! I hope to get one string each year and keep adding to them. It was a family event putting them up. I had a wonderful helper in ‘Big Boy’. He handed me the clips and helped me unwrap the lights but most importantly he held the ladder for me (except when he took the below picture.). 
Holding the ladder and chatting with me turned out to be very important because I discovered I don’t like being on ladders at all! I was pretty shaky getting down again. It is so funny how we change when we grow old. I remember climbing up and swinging on ladders as a child… we used to play ‘dare devil’ and jump from fence to ladder to roof tops as kids!
The pretty star lights are to ‘Little Woman’s credit. She insist we get them! Such a grand helper she was as we found a few affordable strings of lights.
When Daddy plugged them in for the first time all the children where on the couch watching out our big window. They clapped (even Baby Boy) and a chorus of ‘Ooooh’ and ‘Aaaah’ rang out. There is no snow here yet and it seems so strange!! So for now we decided with shorter days the cheery lights where needed… might as well get them up while the weather is still mild! But the inside will probably wait for a bit! I am not looking forward to removing ‘Baby Boy’ from the Christmas tree constantly…
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nice! totally wanting to go to the production of Little Women, do you have any idea how much tickets are (more or less)? I would LOVE to take my girls.
Try this link Prairie Chick! I think the seats are around 22-35 dollars:)
http://www.persephonetheatre.org/mainstage.php
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Yippee! A big round of applause. I love putting up “fairy lights” (as they say in England.) They really do make the dreary dark days pass more easily. :~D
Yay! I think we might finally get some Christmas lights this year too 🙂 We’ve been talking about it ever since we got married but it just hasn’t happened yet – seems like there’s never enough money to go around this time of year to splurge on lights.
I hear you Kim. We have been married for almost ten years and we finally found the extra to just do it. It help that I found a bunch on sale at Zellers a couple weeks ago for only four bucks a box.