Do you know what I JUST realized?
I only have a month to get ready for a visit from Krampus!
Have fun with Jolly Old Saint Nick.
I am about to embark on
Halloween
Segunda parte.
Krampus
Alexa- Summon Krampus
RDP Friday – Decorated
Vintage Krampus Holiday Card
This year the Christmas theme
at
Casa del Moscoso
will be…
Krampus!
I know, BIG surprise right?
I’ve got a month to
THE BIG DAY
and in that time I will be searching for and expressing the spirit of
Krampus
in print, in food, and most Christmassy of all -in decorations.
Just to make sure I leave no stone unthrown- I mean over turned
I just my have to resort to asking Google or Alexa for some help- not that I have access to Alexa but I would like to drop in at some of my friend’s houses and say something like:
” Alexa, summon Krampus “.
So far all I have are my Christmas cards and are they ever PERFECT:
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
The question is, do I send these to my friends and family who have naughty or nice ?
I know, it’s a puzzle but that’s okay. It’s part of the fun and this year for Christmas I intend to have a lot of that.
amm
Cleanup With Krampus
I suppose that Cleaning Up after Christmas can be a chore, but does it have to be?
When I was young and we had to do clean up we actually had a lot of fun.
If you did kitchen cleanup you poured yourself a drink and hid in the kitchen and told wild stories and dirty jokes and butchered Christmas Songs with your own off colored versions.
It used to get so noisy and we carried on so much that before you knew it, the kitchen was full of people who wanted in on the fun and hey presto it was clean and you could take the Merry Making out into the living room where…
anything that was flammable went straight into the fireplace- we were not a green recycling family back in the day.
We were just really, really fond of fire.
The only problem we had was one year THE ADULTS of which I was not one of yet- had downed some Christmas Sprits in the kitchen and were so happy that they forgot to open up the chimney flue and it got a tad bit smokey.
Okay, it was really smokey but considering most of my family used to smoke I don’t think they noticed or cared. I mean, they weren’t exactly gasping for air. They probably inhaled most of it and then blew smoke jets out of the window and open doors.
I guess my point to this story is that you make your fun during the Holidays in a lot of different and creative ways.
I personally think that’s what having the Christmas Spirit is all about.
You can have fun when your scraping food off of plates, when you race out to the garbage cans with no shoes on because you’re too busy to put your snow boots on and you don’t want to lose a second of your time lacing them up or even LOOKING for them or when you dump a plate full of your Aunt’s famous homemade bourbon balls into that roaring fire place because you like the way they smell when they burn.
So if you’re clearing up or cleaning up or watching somebody else do it because you are the sharpest knife in the rack, make it fun.
And don’t forget to share the story at your next Holiday Clean Up.
It will be fun, trust me on that.
