Skeleton Love

So KP has a skeleton in our living room. He's very cool. I think he really adds a special touch to the room. When K moved in a few months ago, she was a little freaked out by the skeleton. She did NOT like it, and didn't find the lights strung through him for mood as entertaining as I do.

Fastforward three months and they are fast friends. She was positioning his arms this weekend. Yesterday (cover your eyes KP, you may not want to know) he was digging for gold, if you know what I mean, and today his hand fell down. And K said "aw!" and reached over and kissed Skeleton's hand better. Something I never thought I would witness. And then she was dancing with him. Now he has his arms crossed. I think he's doing a little "stop, in the name of love" er something over there. He looks very content, now that he has won K's love.

Meet Mr. Skeleton. He should have a Santa hat on but we never took the time to dig it out. The eye patch was for Halloween.

Now we are sitting in our cozy living room with the fire a-blazing and the tree a-glowing. How christmas-y is that. Yes, I know Christmas is over. I don't fully recognize that fact until after January 1st, though.

Homey...

Also I learned something cool about Christmas traditions. My boss was telling me last year that at her house, they leave their lights on for twelve days AFTER Christmas, until January 6, which is Epiphany. If you look in Wikipedia it says that depending on the church Epiphany is either celebrating the day the Magi visited Jesus, or the day that Jesus was baptised as an adult. In the West churches are generally celebrating the visitation of the Magi. It brings a whole new meaning to The Twelve Days of Christmas. At least to me. Maybe you already knew that it was the twelve days after, but I always just assumed it was the twelve days before Christmas. I feel so educated. And how cool that the celebration goes on beyond December. Some people even exchange gifts on Epiphany instead of Christmas, to keep the spiritual feel at Christmas and leave the gifts to the end of the celebration. So those people's kids have not yet gotten their Heelies. (Is there ANY child left without them? I'm going to take one of them out with my grocery cart some day soon... on accident of course.)

I hope your Christmas was as merry and bright as mine was! Now I'm working on my New Year's Resolution. You can breahtlessly await that post next...