Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

mas, but we’re not going to celebrate ‘till Monday. Everything is in readiness for the surprise – the tree is at Aunt Maggy’s and all it needs is the fixing! We’re going to do that tomorrow night – how Frances + Joe are going to get Mama and Fred to bed is a dark mystery to me as yet.
                                  Dec. 25 Sunday 1910
A Jolly Christmas!
And a bright New Year!
         Today is Christmas. But somehow it don’t seem so, for there is no snow, and besides we haven’t given our presents away yet, except a few. This morning, the first thing we did was to decorate the house. Frances had bought some holly and imitation poinsettia flowers; the holly we twined on the ballisters in the stairway in the hall; hung over corners and pictures or pinned on the curtains; the poinsettias we unpacked and twined around the chandeliers – an especially big one, we placed it in a tall glass vase. And – oh yes I almost forgot something else. In the center of the front room chandelier, we placed one branch and in the center of the arch-way we tied another branch of the bewitching and mysterious – mistletoe! We had