Above is this year's drawing for our family Christmas card, featuring, as it has for 21 straight years, my twin girls. The cards make a real neat family history all strung together on a knotted ribbon across our living room wall.
Below is a bit of poetic whimsy that's been a ritual on my blog each Christmas Eve since waaay back in 2005. Every beloved tradition starts small. My best wishes to you, thanks for reading my stuff.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!
Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!
Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker n' too-da-loo!
Hunky Dory's pop is lolly
gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!
the only way those lyrics could be any more touching and sweet is if they were sung after a few glasses of fortifying, eighty-proof eggnog.
ReplyDeletehappy holidays to you and your family.
Excellent card again this year! Looks like Amber is taking full advantage of the whipped cream accessibility.
ReplyDeleteThanks for "Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie" - the season would not be complete without it.
Merry, merry Christmas to you and yours and best wishes for 2010.
ronnie
Thanks for sharing your card picture on the blog. I like how each character is engaged in something.
ReplyDeleteI heard the music from "Deck the Halls" earlier today and caught myself mentally filling in the lyrics with that crazy Pogo version...
...which is an improvement over the original!
Merry Christmas.
Thank you, Brian and Walt! Such a treat.
ReplyDeleteI have post a comment on your other site. I hope you get back to me.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU, all.
ReplyDeleteNatasha, I can't find your comment and didn't receive the usual e-mail notifying me of it. Feel free to leave it here or write me directly: brianfies [at] comcast [dot] net.