I'm Dreaming Of A Soggy Christmas.....

Well, not really, but it was certainly soggy when I put up the lights outside today.  At least it was warmer, and it was much easier staking the electric reindeer to the ground with the ground not being frozen solid.

There seems to be a rule with Christmas decorations that the smaller your yard is, the more decorations you put up.  Especially those big blow up things. There are houses in my neighborhood where the house itself seems dwarfed by the 12 foot inflatable Santa or snowman outside.  Cute, but wow!  A little too big.

I've put up the same set of outdoor decorations for the last few years now, and I hit the stores looking for something a little bit different to mix it up.  To tell the truth, I didn't really find anything.  The only thing that really caught my eye was those LED lights that change color, but yikes!  Way too expensive.  It's kind of unusual, really-each Christmas season there's usually at least some new things out there.  The blow up things were new a couple of years back, and the wire light-up figures were before that.   Maybe we need a nostalgia Christmas, with bubble lights and those big plastic light-up figures everyone used to have.  They weren't very original-every block had the same Santa, snowman, manger scene, and choir boys- but they sure were indestructible!  Some people would put them out year after year till the paint wore off and they were mostly just big white blobs.  They don't make 'em like that anymore (and maybe that's a good thing!).