First Christmas in Colorado

This year we met family in Florida the second week in December to vacation at Disney World. Usually we would have left a festive house behind, but this time our Christmas decorations remained in their plastic storage bins so the cats could not do the annual decorating while we were gone. We moved to Colorado in February, which evidently isn’t a long adjustment period for cats since they still easily revert into nervous a cat’s explore and terrorize mode.

We got back home on the 19th and decorated the 20th before Mauri went back to Idaho. The tree was colorful with multi-color lights, the candle lights bubbled, the red chili pepper lights were bright, and the ornaments took us back through memories of time spent together over a fifteen-year period. Looking at ornaments made our the kids is fun, and ornaments that were gifts bring the face of the giver into immediately into view.

Our neighbor, Mr. Jim, joined us for dinner and helped Tad decorated the deck with multiple color icicle lights. They looked so pretty Tad also ran a string up the staircase inside. Besides being festive the multi-color lights also gave a hint of the atmosphere we enjoy at the local Mexican food restaurant we visit. This thought reinforced my happy feelings with the promise of comfort food to continue in 2010.

Friends from Texas visited one day. We took them for Mexican food and came home to sled in the back yard. The idea of snow and sledding is especially cool since that is one thing Carrollton, Texas could never offer.

As we relax into our first year, and first full winter we open our hearts to all the new things ahead.