We're less than 100 days to Christmas.
I know, because on Facebook I've got friends who are just as eager for Christmas as I am, and they've begun the Christmas playlist- a mix between Mariah Carey and Frank Sinatra- and the annual day-to-day countdown.
I know, because the lights in Orchard Road are already going up, ION is constructing its tree, Wisma is catching up with their tree and very soon we'll have Ngee Ann City and Paragon and everyone else and the whole street will be lit up glimmering shining and bright .
And I also know, because Daiso, in true Japanese efficiency, has brought out all the Christmas decorations that are going for $2 each and they are such cute, charming lil things.
I've not started preparing for Christmas 2017.
That will come a few weeks from now.
But I won't forget.
But I won't forget.
Because somewhere, someplace, not too far away, there's THIS to remind me that the season is finally here.
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| a very Blessed Tree |
She's a very special tree, this one.
She's a tree that has, from the first day she was brought home, stood tall, confident and proud. She's a tree that has, for a whole of eleven months, illuminated that very space with her twinkly blue lights, never stopping, both through the day and through the night.
She wears few Christmas decorations, this one, only a couple of metal balls here and there that hang from her spindly branches, but she doesn't mind, because many an other decoration has she on her, from the card of a Lunar New Year to the lion soft toy of Easter to a card from the Mid-Autumn Festival and even a little gift for National Day.
People get surprised by what she wears, she knows, but she doesn't care. Because she knows that Christmas is, and can be year round, and as long as she fills those that surround her with a sense of home, warmth, love and light, that is all that matters. :)