Page 30 of Kit
“Excellent. We’ll do that first.”
We got the hearth all cleaned off and the garland situated. When I plugged it in, white lights shown from beneath the fake fir needles.
“That’s pretty!” Kit jumped. “It needs stockings now.”
“We’ll get those later,” I said.
Next, we found two boxes of ornaments and set them aside. I had forgotten how many Christmas knickknacks I’d collected over the years, but there was a box full. We set them about the living room with a centerpiece candle in a wreath of holly for the dining room table.
Kit found several strings of lights which would go on our future tree. We put them with the ornaments.
“All right. Let’s go outside now and get the outdoor stuff.”
“Yay!” Kit started running for the door.
“Coat and scarf,” I called out.
“Yes, Daddy.”
Outside the air was chilled and fresh. I breathed deeply, looking off toward the west when I saw a wall of gray.
“Those could be snow clouds.”
“I hope it snows for Christmas!”
Kit ran into the garage as soon as the door was open. I brought all the Christmas stuff out.
“Hope we have enough extension cords,” I mumbled.
It was great to dump the tree parts out of their boxes, put them together and stand them up.
“They all light up, right, Daddy?”
“Yep. Hopefully. They weren’t cheap but they also don’t last forever.”
One was white, it’s branches like icicles. One was a spiral. The third was metal green but looked very real.
“Where do you think they should go?”
“Along the pathway to the door.” Kit crossed his arms, very sure of himself.
“I’ve got two outlets on the porch and a couple of surge boxes. We’ll make it work.”
I brought out the ladder and the staple gun for the strings of lights that would outline the eaves. It was lot of work, with me working on the ladder and Kit reeling out the strings.
“It’s only going to be the first story lit up,” I said. “I don’t want to climb up on the roof.”
“No, Daddy. I don’t want you to fall. This will look great. They can go across the porch. If we have extra, we can outline the front door.”
We could always buy more, too.
“We can do the balcony off my bedroom,” I suggested.
“That will look so pretty.”
Kit was jumping up and down so much, I could tell he didn’t feel the cold. But up where I was on the ladder, the breeze seemed to be getting colder.
Finally, we had everything done and plugged in.
