decking

We ventured to Frankenmuth today. In Frankenmuth one can find what I am sure is the world's largest Christmas store, Bronners. For 20 years our Christmas tree has been dominated by Disney ornaments. Each with it's own memories of trips to Disneyworld, Disneyland or a child's obsession with a particular movie. As the kids have aged we've supplemented with the traditional kid made ornaments, sports ornaments, dance ornaments and religious ornaments. Last year we had the kids paint their names on ornaments... but nothing felt quite right. Today while visiting Bronners we came upon their international section. It's limited in a typical midwestern way, lots of western European countries well represented, but the entire African continent represented strictly as "Africa", not sure I saw any Asian countries, and virtually no Latin American. We decided that it would be fun to collect ornaments representing each country we have visited. While we weren't able to find ornaments from all the countries, we did find small flags from the remainder. We'll continue to search for the other countries.

When we got home from Bronners I was in the mood to begin decorating our home. As the boxes of ornaments and decorations were brought up from the basement, I couldn't help but begin to sing "Deck the Halls" to myself. Which reminded me of that gigantically fat woman who blocked the entirety of Scandinavia and made me wish I'd been in a decking mood then. I'd politely said excuse me, and she refused to move. I gently pushed on her backpack so to slide behind her and she remained cemented in place. Deck... yes, I thought, I would love to deck right now!