Comments on: The Lights http://iamthiswoman.com/mainblog/2009/12/the-lights/ ... expanding my universe. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:08:03 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marti http://iamthiswoman.com/mainblog/2009/12/the-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-1489 Marti Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:43:10 +0000 http://iamthiswoman.com/mainblog/?p=212#comment-1489 This made me smile! We put up our first Christmas lights this year. Our old, old house electricity just won't take much, but we decided to risk it because the girls love the colors, the sentiment, the beauty shining in the dark. They have asked for years, and now don't even bother. We simply hear, "I wish WE could have lights on OUR house.." We chose three short strings of <a href="http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/76/48/78/68/0076487868239_500X500.jpg" rel="nofollow">star-shaped colored lights</a>. They are long enough to run along the front edge of our porch. They are a different shape than our next-door neighbor, who thinks our last name is Jones, and has dripping icicles of lights hanging by every Thanksgiving evening. And they are multi-colored, because the girls love the pretties, even though Chris' favorite are tiny white bulbs. We brought them home and surprised the girls... and they each smiled that child's wonder grin that doesn't appear so often now that they're older. It was so fun and special for me - probably one of our last "family" memories while they're all still young and at home. Happy lighting! This made me smile! We put up our first Christmas lights this year. Our old, old house electricity just won’t take much, but we decided to risk it because the girls love the colors, the sentiment, the beauty shining in the dark. They have asked for years, and now don’t even bother. We simply hear, “I wish WE could have lights on OUR house..”

We chose three short strings of star-shaped colored lights. They are long enough to run along the front edge of our porch. They are a different shape than our next-door neighbor, who thinks our last name is Jones, and has dripping icicles of lights hanging by every Thanksgiving evening. And they are multi-colored, because the girls love the pretties, even though Chris’ favorite are tiny white bulbs.

We brought them home and surprised the girls… and they each smiled that child’s wonder grin that doesn’t appear so often now that they’re older. It was so fun and special for me – probably one of our last “family” memories while they’re all still young and at home.

Happy lighting!

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