Sunday, 01-Dec-2024


With Thanksgiving complete, Christmas was right around the corner.

One of the many qualities about Andrea that I appreciate is her revelry and joy around holidays – with a special place of honor reserved for Christmas. She’d spent the preceding weeks focused on Thanksgiving… but with a notable earmark that Christmas preparation would begin pretty much immediately after Thanksgiving cleanup was finished.

Well, Saturday was cleanup and recovery.

Sunday, then, was Christmas.


It started with a trip to Dunnes, to buy ourselves the various accoutrements needed to dress the tree – we had our first ornament, bought a few weeks prior from the Guinness Storehouse, but needed the lights and extra ornaments needed to truly transform the tree from a simple trunk and leaves into a Christmas Tree.

From there, we ventured up and down Meath Street, the lovely marketplace near the apartment that tends to somehow have both everything you’re looking for, but nothing that’s quite exactly what you need. Thankfully, the market came through with flying colors this time, and an absolutely perfect tree was purchased, and carried home with us.

I don’t need to say how excited we both were. The photos do far better justice than I ever could.

The tree dressed, the lights clicked on. A new beacon was lit at the apartment, one that would shine out to beckon us home for nearly two months, out from the kitchen window.