Madison family decorates home for Christmas for nearly 30 years

Sisters Lindsey Rowe and Lauren Rowe-Hobbs are wellbeing treatment staff in Jackson and have noticed the actual physical and mental toll the COVID-19 pandemic has experienced on sufferers and other health and fitness care personnel. 

To minimize worry and rejoice the vacations, the girls have centered on a spouse and children tradition which is just about 30 decades in the making. They assistance their parents, John and Sheri Rowe, decorate their Madison residence with around 100,000 lights, inflatable decorations and handmade picket layouts of Disney people and other figures small children figure out from television and movies. 

“Coming dwelling and seeing all the lights coming up is normally inspirational and encouraging mainly because it’s a little something that we all completed with each other and we know it provides joy to men and women,”  Lindsey Rowe stated. 

The lights are on Indian Pines Lane in Madison. This 7 days, John Rowe is dressing up as Santa Claus and handing out candy canes to those people who go to.

Lindsey Rowe, from left, Lauren Rowe-Hobbs, Hollis Hobbs and Sheri Rowe pose for photograph with Santa near the Christmas lights on Indian Pines Lane in Madison, Miss., Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. The family has set up the holiday lights display at their home for nearly 30 years.

Lindsey Rowe treats grownups with COVID-19, and her sister is a pediatrician. 

Early in the pandemic, there have been fears about getting the virus at function and brining it house, explained Rowe-Hobbs, who failed to see her mom and dad or bring her son to see them for a several months to avert them from having sick.

Just about two many years into the pandemic, there is nevertheless worry, but Christmas lights and the holidays are a good distraction and a supply of contentment, she said.