For the past few years the boys wait patiently each Christmas season to help Papa set up the Dickens Village that we have collected over many years. Long before they were here and even before their Mom and Uncle, Jim and I started to collect this Dickens village, piece by piece, from a company called Department 56.  At the time and even today it is quiet expensive.  All the pieces are made of porcelain and are hand-painted. The Villages consist of little houses, trees of different kinds and sizes, people in period clothes and numerous other things one might find in an old fashion Village.  All of the major houses light up and the entire village, when put together is just so very festive.