Heartwarming Trinkets

I said goodbye for real to Christmas today, today is the day that all of the shiny purple, red baubles were packed away, the glittering lights turned off and the tree unceremoniously was dumped to the end of the garden where it will be cut and burnt or if it is very unfortunate it will sit there waiting to rot away.

I also find this a sad occasion although S says she loves it, it de-clutters the house and everything looks clean again she says. I think the room looks bare, unappealing and most of all unhomely. 

I just love Christmas and how it makes the house feel, cosy and warm with just the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree. Just sitting fireside, a cup of tea, soft carols playing in the background and tying ribbons to oddly shaped presents, I just love that feeling. Fuzzy.

I love unwrapping all the decorations from the newspaper that you wrapped them up last Christmas or even the  paper from the year before exclaiming at all the lovely decorations you bought last year [because they are the ones I forget we own] but wrapping the decorations back up and carefully dragging them up to the attic is a somber affair. There are no carols no silly hats to be worn just a lot of pine needles to hoover up and a big empty space in the room that I try unsuccessfully to fill. This while I wrapped up baby jesus in his swaddling clothes of last Sunday newspaper, I thought a year is a long time and I have no idea where I'll be and what I'll be doing by the time to pull this heartwarming trinkets out again!