It’s almost Christmas! Are you ready?
I honestly don’t now where this month is going! Feels like it’s flying by! I desperately need more time!!! I have to fit in making cookies, our hometown parade, Granddaughter’s birthday, school play, time with friends, wrapping presents, shopping, and projects for January. Do you feel this way? It’s going way too fast, this month we call December.
I’ve done as much decorating as I can this year. There’s just not enough time! I actually let my husband slip by without putting lights on the house! I must really be feeling rushed to let him out of that!
Our tree stands in the center of the living room.
My little black cat named Topsy came out to see the tree. She’s very shy so it really must have attracted her! She loved it! She was purring, licking her paws and sitting so happily under the tree! And yet, if you were to stop by you’d never see Topsy. She’d be hiding as quick as a wink!
She’s content to sit under the tree…
…and enjoy the ornaments! Or maybe she loves my little stuffed Allie dogs & Scooter Pie the cats!
My feather tree is dressed in silver this year, with a little touch of gold…
And the dining room hutch is home to my little pink sheep…
How do you decorate? Do you always put your tree in the same place? Do you have ornaments you mix up each year? Different sets of ornaments? Do you move everything around or does it make you feel more “at home” with things the same every year?
If you visit Kevin Sharkey’s blog (he’s part of the Martha Stewart team) you can watch how he decorates his trees. He has boxes and boxes of wonderful ornaments and he’s so dang organized. I’m taking notes for next year. Be sure and click on the slide show above the picture. You’ll see 3 gold tinsel trees come to life.
Hope your shopping is done (LOL) and presents all wrapped.
Anne
32 Comments
SuzK
your tree is so lovely. I also have a cat that disappears when strangers come in, but the tree was of no interest to her once she realized it couldn’t be eaten! My older cat, that passed away last Spring, loved the tree. She’d lay underneath the tree on her back just looking up at the lights for hours on end.
mimi'sdarlins
Anne, I know I left a comment yesterday, maybe I forgot to submit it!! Life is hectic! I LOVE your tree(s), I think it’s so sweet that Topsy finds comfort in your tree, too. My little Max used to love our tree, she would drink the water when I wasn’t looking, and I worried it wasn’t good for her. We always cut down our tree so it’s fresh, and we find a nice, BIG tree (nearly ten feet w/ the angel on top), and I decorate the same every year, only each year has more ornaments. Each one is special, either vintage from my mom, or ‘vintage’ from my first trees on my own, many are handmade by someone special, including ‘me’ :-) I still hang the ornaments my boys made when they were little. This tree makes my heart ‘sing’ every time I walk into the room. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home with us. Merry Christmas!
Love, Diane
Jennifer O.
Dear Anne,
Out of all the blogs that I have on my list I do enjoy reading yours the most. I love what you have done with your tree and you are very lucky that your cat has not taken advantage of it. Unlike our Isabel who happens to think that our tree is there for her own personal use. I am almost afraid to put the decorations because a lot of them are from my childhood and others that I have bought on my own in the past that are very expensive. Our other cat is a lot like Topsey, Lea loves to be under the tree because it is a place she can hide. Our tree is partically stuck in a corner. So it makes her feel safe and she can still see everything that is going on.
As for the rest of the holiday cheer a lot of it may not happen because of a tight budget in our house. It came down to the choise of getting the kids presents or holiday baking. Truthfully I and the rest of my family do not need any more weight on us and I rather see the kids have a good Christmas instead. Even though I am in the mood for some chocolate chip cookies, buckeyes and some fudge!
As for the household it is decorated differently every year even though I use the same decorations that I have had for the last five years. I rather be home on Christmas day than to be out and about visiting with family and friends. I have made it a rule to let the kids have Christmas at home and we do not go any where on Christmas day. But this year is going to be rush here and there. Ugg!
This year my daughter and I have been watching the 25 days of Christmas on ABC Family and trying to catch any of the Christmas specials that are on at night. One other thing I have done with my daughter since she was old enough to grasp the concept of Christmas as is to put a glass pickle on the tree and she has to find it on Christmas morning after all her presant are all opened. When she does find it I give her one last presant and it is typically an oriment. That way when she grows up and moves out on her own she will not be scrambling for oriments. Instead she will just have to search for her own tree.