Just because

The tree was supposed to come down today but it got a last-minute stay of execution due to a complex legal technicality I'll try to sum up as succinctly and understandably as possible by saying that everyone in the house was exhausted and took a lot of naps. But I'm a sucker for dark houses lit by tiny lights on cold winter nights, so even though it's staggeringly past my bedtime I'm still sitting here in the post-midnight silence under the constellation of tiny tree lights just because I have one more chance to do it and it makes me happy.