Well, this one should be short considering we still have a pumpkin sitting on our front porch. We just don’t do much outdoor decorating. I’d like to have things but the crew just refuses to cooperate most years.
So I settle for driving around and looking at everyone else’s fabulous Christmas displays. Not our house:
For a few years, we had a light up reindeer and sleigh, the kind with just the white lights. And we did have the inflatables we’d inherited from my in-laws at some point. A Santa and a snowman. Santa went first, my husband didn’t put him up because poor Santa was worn enough to potentially be frightening to young children. Then, the snowman went. Thought I could share an old picture but alas the computer/blog/universe is not cooperating today.
Almost forgot, that I usually do put a small real tree in my angel planter each year. And I’ve always wanted to decorate a tree for the birds (maybe this is finally the year for that).
And the Award Goes To…
I do have a fun little game I play as I’m out driving and see homes decorated for the holidays. I give awards. Not real ones, just in my head or sometimes spoken out loud. I’ll acknowledge red ribbon, blue ribbon, honorable mention, and grand prize ribbons. Or sometimes I do 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. Of course, I give out more than one ribbon or placement so many houses can be blue ribbon or 2nd place.
Well, I’m off to switch some laundry and head off to work. Hoping to actually get inside this house decorated by the weekend.
Do you decorate inside and outside for the holiday?
*Joining in with Tamy over at Chasing My Life for Blogmas 2022.
I’m so thankful that hubby likes to do and is responsible for most of the outdoor decorating. But, I really LOVE your drive and award system. We do drive around the neighborhoods and have definite favorites! Some houses are “regulars” that we look forward to seeing how they have changed since the previous year.
My husband is a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to outdoor decorating (sometimes indoors as well). However, he’ll generally help with whatever I need and is great about doing the “boring” outdoor chores that take care of things like making sure the gutters are cleared of leaves and such. And our neighbors are really decorating it up this year, so I’m enjoying their little display each night.
We used to decorate outside but have not done it for years now. I miss it. Hubby and I have very different styles though. I like the less-is-more, well placed lights. He’s in the ‘More, more, MORE!’ camp, not caring if it’s cluttered and busy. I’d hoped to at least have a simple string of lights on the porch this year but all of our outdoor decorations are so buried under other things after years of not using them. Next year though!
I love looking at the lights of other houses. As I’ve gotten older, driving at night is harder for me, and hubby just doesn’t care to drive around looking at lights. When I was still working it was 12-hr shifts so I’d be coming home at 7pm and would at least see all the festive houses along my drive home. Maybe I’ll just suck it up and go for a little drive some evening before Christmas.