It looks as if one of Santa’s elves exploded in here! There
are bows, bags, and gift wrap all over my dad’s office.
For weeks my step-mom has been putting aside things for
wrapping. Gifts for cousins, siblings, in-laws, and assorted friends are strewn
all over the room in various stages of decoration. A few stocking-stuffers that
I had sent here to be wrapped are set to one side; they were sheathed in
brightly colored paper earlier today.
We have boxes of ornaments off to one side, we’ll be
trimming the tree in the living room a little later-on and then we can pile all
the tinsel-covered packages around the base; the apparent aftermath of a tragic
sleigh accident.
The mess in this room will be clear, the present strewn,
tree-festooned corner of the living room will be all lovely for a few days and
then the mess that I am surveying here will be a pale presage of the chaos that
will be all over the living room. But what fun we will have on Christmas morning,
sharing time with each other, like red-and-green pirates surveying the booty
that Old St. Nick has left for us.
It truly is a magical time of the year – even if, it at
times looks a bit like elf-barf!
Wherever you are today, I home your holiday prep is… uh…
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