A little Cheer

Here are two pictures of two of my Christmas trees. I actually have four of them. I had decided that this year was to be my first grown up Christmas tree. I started collecting ornaments in January and picked up several ornaments on sale. Which of course brought me great joy. But then I decided to go to India for my friend Mohamed 's wedding and I would be gone for Christmas. I wasn't sure what to do. Should I put up a real tree or not. Those fake ones are expensive but I found a lovely 6 ft tree for 20 bucks and I have to say it looks pretty good. I love coming home and opening my door and seeing the lovely twinkle lights. Apparently I have a thing for stars...sparkley stars. When I put the first one on my tree it took my breath away. It is also totally awesome to see my tree twinkling in my window as I drive down the road. It's magical.
The other little trees are special too. One from Mom, One from my friend Helen and one from Grandmother.
They make me smile and bring me a little cheer every day.

Halloween

This was my Halloween costume for this year. It was fun! I really love the purple wig I've got to figure out how I can wear it again. Halloween was fun this year. We always make a big deal of Halloween at work. The costumes are fantastic but I don't really compete for the big prizes. It's just fun to dress up a bit. For me the best part of Halloween is thinking about what Halloween was like when I was growing up. It always reminds me of Grammie and that feels good. Either Mom or Grammie would make the most wonderful goulash that would be ready to eat when ever you were ready. It would be in a huge black pan sitting on top of the stove and if you were hungry you could just serve yourself. And there was always enough for an army, which was good because we would have friends come over to trick or treat. Of course Laura would come over too. Our neighborhood was great for trick or treating. Lots of friendly neighbors who gave out great candy. We would then come back to the house and count the massive amount of candy that we had just scored. We would fill up pillowcases full of candy! I don't remember eating all that candy but we must have. I don't know where it went if we didn't!
Anyway it was always special and it marked for me that it was getting colder and that made me happy.
I hope that you all had a wonderful Halloween!
Liss