Hi, everyone! Trixie here. Well, Chistmas has come and gone, and Santa Claus has come and gone, and he left us with some pretty nice presents. Over the next few days we’re going to share our Christmas gifts with you here, and we’re starting today with…OGGZ!
What, you may ask, are Oggz? Well, they are this cool sort of “novelty lighting” that’s shaped like eggs, and they glow in all different colors of the rainbow. We got a group of three, and they sit on a little silver triangle thingy to “charge,” and when they are charged, you can flip a little switch on the bottom and they start glowing! Each Ogg glows in all the colors, switching colors every few seconds. It’s a continuous light show, and it’s fascinating to watch, and very relaxing.
Yeah, these Oggz don’t actually DO anything, except look cool, but sometimes that’s all you want out of a present. No, wait. I take that back. The Oggz would be excellent as night lights, if we ever got scared, and felt like we wanted a little night light on as we were going to sleep. But we don’t really anticipate that will be the case. Mostly, we just like them because they’re pretty.
Miss Chrissy says the Oggz are very difficult to take pictures of, because the lighting has to be “just so,” and especailly if you are trying to take a picture of all of them at the same time, you can’t really make the Oggz be a certain color at a certain time, they just keep doing whatever they want to do. So it’s hard to get a picture of three Oggz showing three different colors at the same time. But I think the portrait she made of us below shows off the Oggz pretty well, and of course, don’t we all look comfy and cozy in our snuggly pajammies?
We didn’t ask Santa Claus for Oggz, because honestly, before we saw them on Christmas morning, we never even dreamed such a thing existed! Sometimes it’s nice to get the presents you asked for, and sometimes it’s just as good to get the presents you didn’t even know you wanted, until you see them. It’s always fun to find out about new things, don’t you think?
Christmas is getting very close now, and tonight we took a break from our TV Christmas specials and Santa Claus stake-out to read an old favorite Christmas book. 
she saw the cute little green polka dot jammies Miss Chrissy had for her to wear. As you can see, the strawberries among the polka dots declare that Tillie is “Berry Sweet”! How cute!
Trixie put together another “Pretty in Pink” outfit, this one also sporting polka dots on the footie pants, as well as polka dots on a sleepy-eyed elephant! Whoever heard of a brown and white polka dot elephant? Not me! But he certainly looks contented. And I love the flowers on his ears!
Miss Chrissy confessed that she did not remember this book from her childhood, since at the time, she was a strict devotee of Dr. Seuss and Beverly Cleary. She only came across Mr. Willowby when her own children (who are now grown) were little, and loved to read everything they could get their hands on —Seuss, Cleary, Willowby, Sendak, Scarry, Curious George, Berenstain Bears and Goosebumps, to name a few. The list goes on and on!
adopted by some bears, who snip the top, which ends up going to the Fox family, and the tippy-top of their tree makes the Rabbit family very happy, but it’s too tall for their mantle so they snip-snip, and little Mistletoe Mouse takes that snip to his house, and it’s just perfect for his family! And what do you know? The Mouse family lives in a mouse hole in the baseboard of Mr. Willowby’s enormous house, right next to Mr. Willowby’s enormous Christmas tree.
Last time, Tillie promised a full report on the Christmas decorations here in Whimsieville. I hope she didn’t get anyone’s expectations up too high, because we are certainly not ostentatious about our decorations. 
A few strings of light grace the bushes in the front of the house, but nothing like what you see here on the left. No, this is not Whimsieville at Christmas. Whimsieville may indeed have a tree, and a wreath on the door, and few stockings hung by the chimney with care, but we are simple folk, and we are not going to win any neighborhood awards. 
Tessie has said many times that the thing she likes most about Christmas is the lights, and so she wanted to pose with a string of colorful twinklers that I’ve hung around the window in the Whimsie’s bedroom. She, too, looks adorable. She’s been bugging me to hang more twinklers, but a lot of them from last year went dead in storage, and I haven’t had time yet to go to the store and buy more. More bright lights may yet happen before the Christmas season is over, but in the meantime, these colorful twinklers give the Whimsies’ room a cheery glow each evening.
Speaking of “glow,” Trixie chose a different mood for her Christmas portrait and opted to pose with the arrangement of Christmas candles and pine cones that are currently serving as a centerpiece on the Big Table. What a different mood in this this picture! So serene! And I wish you could tell this from the picture, but the pine cones have such a lovely smell!
The Whimsies tree is small, because they are small, but that does not mean they are small on Christmas spirit. In fact, I would say the Whims have as much Christmas spirit as Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning, after his visit from the three ghosts! 
The Whims love this show so much, I hated to think what two disturbing episodes in a row might do to them. 
Tillie here. And I have a long story to tell you. It’s the story of how we all came to live in Whimsieville, and it’s all tied up with this game from the 1960’s: Memory. It’s also tied up with a lot of memories.
Miss Chrissy and The Man have to spend a good part of most days away from Whimsieville, but while they are gone, we always find ways to occupy ourselves. And then we are happy to see them in the evenings. And on weekends. Though lately, they spend much of the day they call Saturday watching another kind of game they call Football. It’s an exciting game, and sometimes Our People enjoy it so much that they make a lot of noise, which frightens Mr. Squee, so he goes and hides in the bathtub.
Sometimes we play all three together, but sometimes we have a Championship Playoff, to see who is the best. So far Tessie is taking those honors, almost every time. First she plays Trixie, and wins….and then she plays me, and wins again! 
