There's No Place Like Home: Ch.4

I don’t know about your family, but in my family we go all out with decorating our house for the holidays. When we were children for Halloween, I remember decorating our house entirely in “cobwebs” and sprinkled spiders, laying coffins in the front yard, jack ’o’ lanterns would run along the lawn, devices that would have ghosts or goblins pop out and of course the music sound tracking the whole spectacle.

Christmas was just the same. Thousands of bulbs would illuminate our house, Santa would be sleighing across our roof with the reindeer, mobile deer would be in the lawn, peppermint candy canes would seam the drive way, fake snow and icicles would blanket the roof and ground and yet again music would sound track the spectacle. The inside of the house wasn’t much different. A decadent tree would make its presence known in the living room, wreaths would decorate every door, a mistle toe was oddly hung in the house (I mean really…who were we going to kiss?) and random Santa and elves ornaments would be placed around the house.

This year, since we are adults now, things were toned down a bit. The front yard was now maturely decorated with poinsettia plants and a poinsettia and tinsel trim around the door with a proper and decadent wreath in the center. The inside of the house had again poinsettias descending down the stairs and a beautiful wreath like trim spun spiraling down the hand rail of the stairwell. Our tree, tall and proud, was decorated with the most beautiful ornaments I have seen. Delicate, intricate, regal they all were ranging from hand crafted glass blown ornaments to objects of drums, rustic leaves and pine cones and tinsel. Underneath the tree was a silk lay in to which synthetic presents and further ornaments decorated the real plethora of beautifully wrapped presents.

It was a real sight. This all may sound frou frou to you, but it’s like that image you always see in movies where one walks into the room and the room is illuminated, beautiful and bursting with presents. Yeah, it was like that. However, we: the family + John decorated the house and tree that way and it was a lot of fun. We ate a delicious Persian dinner, drank wine, decorated and then of course since we are our family, goofed around by taking silly pictures. It just wouldn’t be a typical family night if we didn’t.