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Angela M. DeVito Gahan November 23, 2012 at 04:56 pm

I used to love to fix up for Christmas. Then in 2006 I started to get sick...now I am totally disabled with C.O.P.D. and use oxygen 24/7 and only using 30% of my lungs so it makes hard to do the fixing of Christmas lights outside. I would do it all and my Dad would help me connect them to light up on timers. I miss that. I wish I could do it but now that my mom is in Rehab for breaking her hip she would help so much and my parents are well into there 80's but this year looks like if we get anything out it would be I don't know. I have my son helping me do the inside and yeah I have him a lot during Christmas but he is a Boy Scout and well he has to work the Tree Lot for that money they make will enable his Troop to go out of the district next summer so then the parents don't have to pay for it. So he is here but not. So there is no way to do it by my self so I will get out what I can.
I hope everyone that puts out lights you have fun in doing it because when it becomes a job you might not as well put them out. Have fun doing it. Have a great Christmas Season.

Diana Davis November 23, 2012 at 06:33 pm

There are things that I can no longer to also; but I rejoice that I could do them for many years and now, I go for a dirve and enjoy what others have put up. I try to take a trip to Winter Wonderland and go even if the grandchildren cannot join me. I maintain an atttude of gratitude that I am still able to do the things that I can do.