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.
All that being said, let’s get on with our humble presentation!
First, I thought I would start by taking a picture of some of those “stockings hung by the chimney with care” (which of course is actually not a chimney at all, but a fireplace), and it seems that while I was pointing the camera, setting up the shot, Tillie thought I was ready to snap, and ran in exclaiming, “Wait a minute!! Wait for me!” and got her head into the picture. Well, she looks so adorable here, and so full of Christmas cheer, I simply saw no need for another picture.
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!
Finally, what would Christmas be without a tree? There were two for the Whimsies to choose from, one green, the other silver, and they unanimously chose the silver. When I asked why, they all said that being children of the 60’s, they have many fond memories of silver trees, which were of course very mod and posh back in the day. In fact, back in that day, when I was much younger and Tessie and I first knew each other, we spent a number of Christmases around a pretty silver aluminum tree, similar to this one, though much, much bigger.
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!
And so here, for your holiday enjoyment, we present a scene from Scrooge, one of our very favorite Christmas movies ever. We dare you to take a look and not go away teary-eyed and smiling.
