Snowy December

I woke up to more snow. It's just a nice gentle light snow though, pretty and not deep. Even Guntown looks good in snow, well, sort of. I like it before everyone walks in it and the animals pee in it. I put an old artificial tree in my dead flower bed and let Lissa pick out the lights. She chose "all colors." The ground was frozen, so, I wired the sucker to the clothes line pole, lol. It looks pretty lame in the day time, but, at night it's just as pretty as can be. She put the lights on the bottom and I left them the way she arranged them. We have yellow around the porch roof and doors and some little trees. She really got into the decorating, she said no one ever lets her do it. Now she wants to add more. I talked her out of those blow up snowmen and suggested maybe a reindeer. She thought that was a great idea, but, now I can't find one in town. Maybe they have one in the next town over, I'm going to look this week. If I find a big plastic light up Santa though, I'm getting it for her. I told her she can keep adding lights to the garden until New Years. We'll see if we can blow the breaker box clear out.

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OMG, Lissa is losing her first tooth. She let me wiggle it and it's really loose, so I told her all about the tooth fairy. She had no idea. She said "Are you kidding me??" I said, no kidding, you'll get money for it! She's so excited. I have to get the car out of the snow today, because she has her school Christmas program and she invited me. I love those, don't you? You stand in a hot gym that smells like socks and popcorn farts and wait hours for your kid to show up and pick their nose on stage with 30 other kids picking their noses while some harried old lady plays an untuned piano. And you clap and take blurry photos of a speck. Jingle bells. All the way. And they're always so proud. Somewhere up on stage I'm bound to hear "Hi, Grandma, HI!!!" I'll be there. You can bet on it. These are the good parts of life.