🎵"CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE, "GOOGLE MAPS!" 🎵 🎶

Remember the old Charlie Brown Christmas animation on television?  We all do.  The first line or so of the theme song Christmas Time Is Here says "Happiness and Cheer", right?  Well, that was what I was going for when I searched high and low for my stash of CD's, happiness and cheer.

Here's a tip for old age:  don't relocate household items.

You're just too old to remember to where you re-located them!  I'm not kidding.  I have proof.  Clinton, even AFTER he moved out into his new home, complained, "34 years of living here with the pots and pans on the lazy Susan and you move them out and move in the cereal!"

Darling Hubby says, after living here for 37 years, "Where do you keep the scissors?'  Seriously?!

So after being exasperated at myself, having looked in the usual places, the unusual places, the places it makes sense such as next to the stereo system or the undercounter CD player, I still couldn't find my Christmas CD's!  And it's no small stash, there's 20.  I had cleaned that drawer and moved them.   Finally, I confessed to Darling Hubby, who I now know understands this phenomenon,  "I can't find my Christmas CD's.  I moved them."

Instantly, he moaned, "Oh, Lord, don't do that!"

 🎵 Happiness and Cheer, LOL 🎶

         🎵 Carols everywhere 🎶

This Christmas, the tree in the attached photograph, is UP on the piano.  It's a must.  Jacob who just turned two is one of the terror twins.  He has a cousin Noelle, and the two of them work together.  One stands at the fence that keeps them from the pond, while the other carries over rocks to be tossed over the fence into the water.  They both pause to watch this miracle of splash and disappearance.

On his own, Jacob can heave any toy he doesn't want to play with over his shoulders.  And if Santa Claus should not be resting in the wooden engine of that green & red train because other things belong there, Santa gets ripped out!

So, the tree, which would be fully investigated otherwise, is UP on the piano.  Can you hear his little boy voice saying "Wha-s -at?"  And down would come the ornament that had taken his fancy ... with the tree!

🎵  "Fun for all that children call 

            their favorite time of year" 🎶

I went upstairs to ask John a question, relaying it from an Oklahoma friend that was on the phone waiting for an answer.  When I open the door, John is standing next to his dresser putting his right leg into a pair of navy blue slacks, but he chuckles and teases me, 

"I'm nekkid!, does that........"  

Quickly, I turned the phone to my shoulder to muffle the speaker and tried to diffuse with my words.

"JOHN!  No, you're not, you're just changing clothes.  I've got my friend on the phone.  You're glad to know that, right?"

He sobers up, "Right."

🎵 And joyful memories there 🎶

      🎵Beauty everywhere 🎶

We were on our way south, an hour and a half drive, to visit a sick cousin.  The sights were beautiful, air-filled Frosty taller than a house, nativity scenes in the front yards, baubles and lights on outdoor evergreen trees, mailboxes bedecked with poinsettias and flowing ribbons, and amber studded trees with Christmas lights were shining through living room windows.  One even had Santa trepidaciously climbing a chimney.  Even the vehicles passing by were sporting big red bows on their grills, red nose and antlers on SUVs, and lit Christmas wreaths on car noses. 

Well, the motion of the truck, the sound of vehicles tires slapping on the interstate, and the relaxation of nothing needing to be done, and the pleasantry of it all lulled me into slumber.   I wasn't deep into sleep. But I was far gone.  Very near there.  Breathng slow.  Muscles relaxed.  Head drooping to chest.  Thoughts getting mushy going into nothingness.

"GOOGLE MAPS!"

I came unglued.  "Google maps?!  Why'd he just yell?"  My heart picked up speed, my head rose from my chest, my mind was stricken and I cried, "What!  What, John, what?  Google maps?"

Darling dear hubby John, (who just then barely missed being on the 5 o'clock news) had picked up his phone to use his GPS to make sure we were on the right track.  

"I'm gonna put him on the right track!  I'm gonna tie him up right there next to Penelope Pitstop, I am!"

Can I say "Slay bells in the air", now, now spell it right s, l, e, i, g, h.

🎵Sleigh bells in the air🎶

🎵Such spirit in the year🎶

Well, Christmas time is here, it's time for happiness and cheer

If no one has said it to you yet,  "May you be blessed with a Merry Christmas."