Gnome For The Holidays

We live here.

Our children’s grandparents live there.

It is sometimes difficult to connect in a daily manner from state to state with one another.

This weekend we celebrated an early Christmas at our place with Papaw and Grandma.

And we gave them a little gift in an attempt to bridge the gap of all those miles between Ohio and South Carolina.

Meet Columbia and Columbus.

They’re gnomes.

They match one another exactly.

(And their names coordinate – get it?  The capitals of each state.)

We all composed a little rhyme that set up the story of the gnome twins.

Then the kids and the grandparents walked along the driveway searching for the perfect home for Columbus.

Columbia was tucked away in their car and will find his new residence in the snowy path surrounding their home.

This small gnome looks pretty cute tucked away by the ivy on his little stump.

Every time we head in or out of our drive we can check on him and imagine his little twin, all snowed in up north.

(And in case you think I’m a gift-giving genius, although I did not plunder this idea from Pinterest, I did borrow the base of the plan from Oma who hides characters on her driveway with the grandkids.)

But as there is nothing new under the sun anyway, I think it’s a swell idea to have this little reminder of Ohio right on our driveway.