A day in the life........

I did not go shopping yesterday. Yesterday was Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when the stores started opening at 4AM. At 4AM I’m happy to say I was tucked up all warm and cozy, full of second helpings of Thanksgiving dinner, cats asleep with us on the bed and my dreams full of family and food.

I usually start to decorate the house the day after Thanksgiving. We have a small yard, but there are enough varieties of evergreens, holly, boxwood, etc., to fashion a decently full wreath for the front door. I smell the pine from the wreath while I’m decorating the artificial tree. Every ornament is a memory, the when and the who and the where as I unpack a lifetime. The lights wind around the branches illuminating the entire tree, highlighting special ornaments; the elf in the small swing “repairing” a light, the small fabric and painted cardboard angel that was on my mother’s tree and the ornaments we’ve brought back from vacations or been given by friends and family. Then there is the set of bells we hang on the back, the bells that tell us one of the cats is trying to climb the tree. The same two cats who will later curl up to sleep under the tree in the quilt we use as a tree skirt. There are ornaments to hang in the windows and adorn the front door wreath and, despite the Thanksgiving leftovers which will fuel us for days and days, I have a batch of cookies to make and holiday movies to watch.

So, I did not help fuel the economy yesterday. Instead, I did my bit to fill house and home with things to delight all the senses. I don't think anyone could call that Black Friday.