Christmas day at Maple Hoo is all about taking it easy, kicking back, and hanging out in our pajamas while we enjoy good company and play with all our new toys. (That’s the spirit of Christmas, right? Playing with new toys?) This year we didn’t even bother with a fancy dinner, because [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas’
December 25, 2008
25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 24
No, we’re not very religious here at Maple Hoo, but we do have at least a little Christ in our Christmas.
When we were kids we had two creches that were the funnest part of putting out all our decorations on Christmas Eve. It was like playing with a dollhouse, arranging all the little figures [...]
December 24, 2008
25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 22
You know those clip-on bird Christmas tree ornaments?
We love those. Boomer likes to say they look like farting birds, with their little stiff sprays of “feathers” sticking out of their derrieres. Because we’re classy that way.
December 24, 2008
25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 21
Our Christmas traditions have been through a lot of reinventions since our father died 15 years ago. For a few years we didn’t do anything, then we spent a few years trying to make our trees as fancy as possible, in response to our entirely-too-handmade-and/or-threadbare childhood ornaments, and then we swung back into heavy [...]
December 24, 2008
25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 20
We’re getting closer! It’s almost time to open the stack of loot! But “almost” isn’t close enough, so we still have to bide our time basking in the glory of the tree, and wishing for a white Christmas. Sure, most of our friends on the interwebs are reporting all kinds of big [...]
December 24, 2008
25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 19
We’ve been falling terribly behind here in our countdown to Christmas, but that’s because we’ve been justifiably distracted by a new craft hobby (more on that after the holiday). We’d had visions of lovingly photographing and documenting every one of our favorite ornaments, but that’s been totally derailed. For starters, our tree actually [...]
December 22, 2008
25 Days of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 18
For all that we love making and eating Christmas cookies, the sweet that gets consumed most at stately Maple Hoo during the holidays is candy from Williams-Sonoma. It started with the Peppermint Bark and turned into a full-fledged obsession a few years ago. Now we have an annual tradition of cashing out our [...]
December 21, 2008
25 Days of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 17
Ever since Favre the cat became part of the Maple Hoo family, we’ve had the Christmas tradition of hoping he doesn’t break anything, knock the tree over, or hurt anyone (including himself). Favre was, from Day 1, an ornament chaser. And, last year, an ornament breaker. He’s been especially dogged about getting [...]
December 20, 2008
25 Days of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 16
Our Flickr friend, Carol Browne, joked in the comments over there that we might be her “rich, American friends”. Sadly, this is but a joke. However, if we were rich Americans, one of the first things we’d do would be to buy a fabulous place in New York City if only to be [...]
December 14, 2008
25 Days Of Maple Hoo Christmas: Day 15
If it’s the midpoint of December, that means it’s time to buy a Christmas tree! WOOOO! We headed out this year to Kale’s, as we have for every year since 1986 (at least the ones in which we were living in New Jersey), and it took us a whopping two minutes to find [...]
