Twelve Days of Christmas: Ninth Day

My parents bought our home in Ames, New York in 1951. A year later, I arrived and joined my sister. By 1955, we were a family of six. I have called it my home ever since. At Christmastime my mother went all out to enhance the beauty of our house. Inside and outside. When the exterior was the original white with black shutters and the front door was red, Mom made huge candy canes out of white Styrofoam canes wrapped in red ribbon. She affixed two candy canes in a criss-cross pattern on each window. That year I called our house the Candy Cane House.

 

On the Ninth Day of Christmas my true love gave to me….

nine candy canes,

eight Christmas angels,

 

seven pickle liqueurs

six cookie cutters,

five… Christ…mas cards,

four vintage snowmen,

three special balls,

two wooden skis,

and a Christmas plate for Santa’s midnight snack.

Just three more.

 

Kim