When our sons were little, we would go out and look at the Christmas lights during the holiday season.  I don’t know if they remember it as being fun, but I do.  It was an evening spent together enjoying and appreciating the efforts of those who decorated.  Besides, it was free entertainment!  (When you have a young family, you do a lot of “free” stuff.)  We would spend a couple hours driving around looking at the lights and then go home and have hot chocolate.  For several years, we would visit a particularly awesome neighborhood where every house was decorated in a gingerbread man theme. 

This past Saturday night we drug our son, Adam, and his friend, Crystal, out to look at lights with us.  I think they had fun but I really don’t care because I did!  We found the gingerbread man neighborhood but not every house decorated any longer but the ones that did, were really nice.  I am so glad that people still take the time and trouble to decorate their homes. While it may be a chore for them, it is pure entertainment for us.  To me it is kind of like the Fourth of July in December, complete with the ohhs and ahhs.

By the time we got back from Texas this year, it was too cold to do much outside decorating so we kept our lights pretty simple.