Happy December!

I am trying to remember the bit where I love my festival of winter lights and hypothetical snow and giving people presents, and not so much the bit where grauwulf is busy hating the commerce and enforced cheerfulness and potential family hypocrisy. (I utterly agree that the consumer economics nonsense is crap-- in fact, most modern economics appears to be based on the idea of continuous growth, and there's a name for that: it's called cancer, and it's bad.)

Anyway. I didn't put up the holiday lights on Friday (which was unseasonably lovely) because it wasn't Advent yet, and today it was cold and raining, but there was a break in the rain at naptime long enough for me to put out the lights. And then it got dark out, and I called the Megatherium in to look out the window of my room at the colored strings that had just started flashing on the pergola (of the new deck! Did I mention we have a new deck?) and asked did she know what that was.

"Christmas lights!" she said. "Now Christmas is here!" And then she went off in proper two-year-old fashion telling me that it was time to go give the present she & her father bought last weekend to her best friend down the road, and five minutes later she was playing trick-or-treating again.

As we did one decorative or celebratory thing a day for October leading up to Hallowe'en, we'll try to do Advent things, too. And restrain the Megatherium from opening all the doors of the advent calendar out of order. She's convinced there is going to be a rabbit hiding behind one of them, but so far we have a candle and a plate of cookies.

Happy December!

I am trying to remember the bit where I love my festival of winter lights and hypothetical snow and giving people presents, and not so much the bit where grauwulf is busy hating the commerce and enforced cheerfulness and potential family hypocrisy. (I utterly agree that the consumer economics nonsense is crap-- in fact, most modern economics appears to be based on the idea of continuous growth, and there's a name for that: it's called cancer, and it's bad.)

Anyway. I didn't put up the holiday lights on Friday (which was unseasonably lovely) because it wasn't Advent yet, and today it was cold and raining, but there was a break in the rain at naptime long enough for me to put out the lights. And then it got dark out, and I called the Megatherium in to look out the window of my room at the colored strings that had just started flashing on the pergola (of the new deck! Did I mention we have a new deck?) and asked did she know what that was.

"Christmas lights!" she said. "Now Christmas is here!" And then she went off in proper two-year-old fashion telling me that it was time to go give the present she & her father bought last weekend to her best friend down the road, and five minutes later she was playing trick-or-treating again.

As we did one decorative or celebratory thing a day for October leading up to Hallowe'en, we'll try to do Advent things, too. And restrain the Megatherium from opening all the doors of the advent calendar out of order. She's convinced there is going to be a rabbit hiding behind one of them, but so far we have a candle and a plate of cookies.

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