Holidaze
It’s beginning to look and feel a lot more like Christmas. Last night Lena and I did a little holiday shopping downtown, and we splurged on $1 tacos — hooray for Taco Tuesday and Feliz Navidad to you all.
We also treated ourselves to buy-one-get-one frozen yogurt because of a Christmas promotion. I sampled the fro-yo flavored like egg nog, but I wasn’t impressed enough to commit to a whole cup. I wish La Berry would introduce some additional holiday flavors like peanut blossom, spritz cookie, peppermint stick or frozen hot chocolate. Now those are sweet holiday traditions I can stand behind.
I put up my re-gifted Christmas tree and decorated it more than two weeks ago, but I was waiting for Lena to return home before I posted a photo of it. She visited family in China for three weeks, so our dazzling little tree was a nice welcome home surprise. It is borrowed from our friends, Chris and Beth, who were given the same tree a few years ago as a way to add holiday spirit to their apartment. It’s such a perfect example of the season of giving. Lena and I were also fortunate that their cat, Frank, just happens to love eating its 100 percent artificial needles.
Silly, kitty.
Lucky, me.
I think my first solo attempt at decking the halls looks pretty good. Granted, I decorated the tree using only materials accumulated during a few passes through the Target Christmas aisle, so everything matches perfectly. I also hung two stockings on the washing machine closet knobs to finish off my stint as a holiday décor maven. This year my decorations aren’t elaborate or the ambitious endeavors I see on Pinterest, but I had to start somewhere.
It also feels a bit more like Christmas time despite Savannah’s 70-degree temperatures because I dragged jet-lagged Lena around the mall for a few hours on Sunday. We were able to check a few items off of each of our shopping lists and feel the crisp December chill every time we wandered near the terrible small mall’s air conditioning vents.
