And the stove top snowman guarding our pumpkin bread reward (my Mom's recipe).
Your turn! Post 'em if you've got 'em!
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.” ― Pema Chödrön
I'm starting our decorating now...I'll post pictures hopefully tonight
My tolerance for stupid shit is getting less and less.
I'm craving pumpkin bread now.
Only have two trees up so far.
This one is my Angel Tree. It's a small 2 foot tree on our fireplace that hold heirloom angels from my fraternal grandmother and my maternal great-grandmother. There's also angels I made, and that my daughter has started to collect. (Oddly, she started collecting angels before my grandmother's passed away. She was honored to inherit their ornaments)
This is our Memories Tree. Ornaments from early in our marriage, gifts from friends, oodles of things my children have made over the years. There's also more heirlooms from my grandmothers.
When QS gets home, we're going to pick out a live tree which will go in the living room. That one is the "Pretty Tree" where everything is all matchy-matchy and organized.
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne
I love seeing Christmas decorations!
Since I have room for them? Three. (One in the living room, 1 in the family room, 1 on the fireplace.) Plus a tiny one in each child's room. Which makes 5.
I do somehow have a spare artificial tree too. If I get bored and have enough leftover ornaments, I might stick that one down in the library/school room.
Yeah. I kinda like Christmas.
I love the decorations but wasn't able to do any at all last year. The year before, I was ecstatic to finally be able to decorate to my heart's content and as early as I wanted since I was alone. Xpos never wanted any at all unless we were having everyone at our house. Then he would want a tree up for about 3 days that included Christmas day. Traveling around Christmas again this year, so will have to see what I can handle around that.
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"I could have missed the pain, but I would have had to miss the dance." Garth Brooks
Hall console table:
Living room coffee table:
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I have quite a bit of shopping done, but the wrapping doesn't happen until a day or two before Christmas at my house.
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Also? You cant' tell in the picture, but the Christmas tree is secured with fishing line that runs from the top of the tree to a hook in the ceiling. Otherwise NIKcat would knock it over every day. She climbs it constantly.
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When another woman takes your husband, sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to LET HER HAVE him. OC born 2001 DDay 2002 Divorced 2003 Remarried 2008 (New Guy)
