SILVER BELLS...

"Silver bells silver bells It's Christmas time in the city Ring a ling hear them sing Soon it will be Christmas day ..."

ahhh! the sweet music of bells ringing, Bing Crosby singing...Christmas tunes playing softly on the IPOD (oh how far we've come from the old scratchy record players)
but WAIT!
there is no sweet music playing, no Bing Crosby singing, but I *AM* hearing bells....

ringing, and children ...well, A CHILD, running whenever the bell

is being RUNG. Eliza seems to have confiscated a SILVER BELL

that was used at Aunt Wendy's wedding (actually it was given to her

as a gift with no thought of its future use) today she has decided

to be the QUEEN of our house (is this not how it is EVERY DAY?) and

i am the KING (obviously our dad is NOT around a lot) and poor poor Olivia

is the SERVANT....everytime the silver bells ring, Olivia goes darting

through the house to fetch something for the QUEEN. I am sitting on my

couch reading and giggling as Olivia dashes through the house

for something, YET AGAIN, for the QUEEN.

that, is OUR version of silver bells this holiday season.

i am off to turn on Bing for a while now....

"silver bells, silver bells..."