@jcboy,
wait!
wait!
let him do more of the decorating of his Christmas tree
@ehBeth,
hahaha it was a chore just to get him to hang one
@jcboy,
relax with it a bit
build up the anticipation
decorating a tree is not an instant thing
@ehBeth,
Oh we still have plenty to do, I found these two nutcrackers, about two foot tall. They will be waiting for him when he gets up in the morning
He has the entire house looking like a Gay sale at Macy's!
@jcboy,
oy, that's a nice tree...
@Region Philbis,
I knew it was going to be spectacular. I bet the presents will be wrapped to match it
@jcboy,
jcboy wrote:Almost done.
That 's a beautiful tree; good job!
David
It certainly turned out incredible, jcboy!
@jcboy,
You could write something pithy and sell that photo to Hallmark.
Lovely!
He’s still not finished with his decorating. He’s working his way inside out, thinks he will be finished with the outside lights this weekend. If the neighbors didn’t know we were gay now they certainly will figure it out by Sunday.
@MMarciano,
You didn't think he was going to do this Christmas stuff half way, did you?
@MMarciano,
MMarciano wrote:
He has the entire house looking like a Gay sale at Macy's!
They have "gay sales"? I'M GOING!!! I'd love for my house to look that good!
Thank you!
Antonio loves his tree and he’s super excited to have his friends over. We will be having a little Christmas party for his little classmates. I’m thinking of a little gift exchange party. I think the kids will love that. I’m going to start planning it this weekend.
@jcboy,
Don’t plan it on a Sunday, it will interfere with Sunday Funday.
It all really looks spectacular--I've seen people who practice for 30 or 40 years and don't do it anywhere near as well. I'm kinda of the wretched excess school of decorating myself, no such thing as too many multicolor lights.
Having started all this in the 50s, I'm also convinced that bubble lights are a necessity--fascinated me since I was a kid. You may not be familiar with them, they're making them again, they're sort of the same shape as small candles, a small globular base with a small bulb in it, and transparent "candle" above that with a colored liquid in it--the bulb heats the liquid, which bubbles up to the top endlessly, come to think of it I have no idea why since it's a sealed system it never runs out of air at the bottom to bubble to the top.
I'm also with David, in this if not on much else, that a boy's Christmas must have an electric train endlessly circling the Christmas tree, large scale--G or O gauge preferably, HO is also acceptable. Steam train over diesel. They have a lot of G gauge battery-operated plastic ones now, which are large enough for five year old hands to operate easily I'd say. And you can load the freight cars with all kinds of moving decorations, fruit,pine cones, twigs and boughs, whole new areas of decorating possibilities.
And have you checked out the nutcracker variants: they come up with new ones in the traditional style every year, doctors, policemen, soldiers in camo, hippies, surfer dudes and dudettes, Hawaiian hula dancers, astonishing and comical. I really wonder what the Chinese factory workers think of us as they put them togethr.
@MontereyJack,
Thank you Sir. And I sure have Jack, I have several different ones around the house, different sizes and variations. I may shop for a few more this weekend.
