Question: Gotta light?

We're living in a new part of the country now, and thus, a new neighborhood.

It's now, what, December 8? And nobody on our cul-de-sac has Christmas lights up.

Except us.

We only put up a few, because the chief putter-upper is very busy with work these days. However, I thought that by now we would see more lights around us.

But apparently residents of our little neighborhood, and possibly the mid-Atlantic region at large, are not that into lights.

Not that into lights?!

There are sixteen children on our cul-de-sac. By all measures I would have expected this place to be GLOWING by now.

What people do have is wreaths; tasteful, elegant, BORING wreaths. They're everywhere.

But where are the lights?

Childhood Christmases are predicated on there being lights to drive around and look at after dark.

So the question is, do we go all out with our lights, because that's how we rolled in California, or do we act all subdued and pseudo-mid-Western and stick to wreaths? As I said, we have two measly strands of light on our house at the moment, and it looks pretty pathetic.

Should we go for it and be individuals who like lights? Or go get a damn wreath and blend in with the crowd?

Ahh, life never ceases to be just like high school. You're always wondering what the rules are and if you should play by them or not.

Ho ho ho indeed.