Angela loves to decorate for Christmas. Decorations and music create an atmosphere of joy and cheer, times of family and love and gifts and all things wonderful.
It all began one simple day with a package from home including a CD performed by The Handymen. It begins with a resounding rendition of "Hammers We Have Heard On High" and concludes with "The Twelve Tools of Christmas". A great little gift on which you can hear nearly every tool in a good carpenters workshop. This whet the appetite of a hungry lioness – the burning passion of decoration fever.
The decoration prowess of a woman creating atmosphere – Angela began the HUNT. The first opportunity came in one of the bigger malls. There she found about six CD`s, but which one to choose? One caught her attention, on sale for $5, it was like the young or sick in a pack of wild antelope. The cover claimed "40 Non-Stop Christmas Carols" including all the favourite oldies. Upon successful catch she was rather disappointed to learn, its one single song (so you can’t pick and choose which song you’d like to hear). Somewhat nutritious but not the appetite satisfying prey she was hoping to find.
Then, last week a new pack of prey arrived! A Christmas CD with many favourite’s – juicy and tempting and it even was on sale. With a lunge she brought it down – and upon arriving home discovered it was a fake. Instead of the Christmas CD under all that fur & plastic, it was a totally different CD inside, done by the same people but NO Christmas songs on it.
So today we sit at home, listening to the power tools play Christmas songs for us. The lioness has been outrun by Christmas music this year (although when we have guests we do put on the 40 non stop [literally] Christmas Carols which we are quite grateful for).
We think of you at home often and joy and love fill our hearts. Enjoy this week before Christmas!
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