oh the responsibility.

Did you know how many options for Christmas lights there are?

In my tiny naive world there are colored, white, little and big. And in recent years, icicles.

Thats it.

OH boy was I in for a rude awakening when I ventured out to supply our house with outdoor Christmas lights.

First off, all the size bulbs have weird names. Like C7, C5, C9 etc.

Then they are grouped into color types, white, blue, multi, dual colored, red etc.

Then they are grouped in LED or normal.

Then you have shapes, like icicles, stars, candy canes, nets for bushes, the tubed kind, etc.

Then they are grouped into watts, and length, 12 ft, 15 ft, 25 ft, 32 ft, 45 ft, etc.

Then they are group into effects, blinking, flickering, multi function etc.

So you can imagine the look on the face of the person at the store when I walked in and said "where are the larger colored christmas lights?"

Oh. my. goodness.

I have never before been so overwhelmed with so many choices while shopping.

I mean, I just need lights!

Needless to say I walked out empty handed.

too many decisions. And to me, they are big decisions. This is my first house, my first time being responsible for joyfully decorating my house with lights that will bring a Christmas feeling to a neighborhood street.

I do not take this new responsibility lightly.

Our neighbor does Christmas lights displays for houses, where they blink and move to music.

So I may just give up doing it on my own, and just pay the man to do it.

Much easier, right?