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Nikolaus under Corona conditions: is that possible?
Photo: Sean Locke / Stocksy United
The best woman in the world caught me in bed in November - with a book and an XXL pack of chocolate dominoes.
Smiling lucidly, the chief inspector took a photo as evidence and threatened to put the picture in our family WhatsApp group - because I was always the one with the children who demanded discipline and tradition: no Christmas cookies before the 1st Advent!
This year, at the mercy of this, I gave up my years of resistance to their desire for "more light," that is, the Americanization of our illumination: Still with chocolate leftovers in my 12-day lockdown beard, I mumbled: "Do what you want."
Markus Deggerich
, 50, is the patchwork dad of five children between the ages of 2 and 17.
He works part-time, hopes for a career in the kitchen and watches in amazement as his children and the best woman in the world answer life's big and small questions for him.
Since then, a parcel messenger has rang about three times a day and our otherwise discreet, homely candle mood from the first Advent was replaced by: glowing candy canes as a fence, flashing LED nets and chains in front of the entrance and on the sidewalk, an inflatable Santa Claus on the canopy Climb up, a reindeer with a sleigh, electrified window pictures in colors whose names I have never heard of, pyramids, candle arches, incense smokers, mistletoe, wreaths with candles, so big that they can never burn down until Christmas Eve, and it is still not finished !?
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