Bittersweet
Our house is filled to the brim with family now. I’ve had 2 of my granddaughters staying with me for the past 2 weeks and last night my son, his wife and Lily arrived from Germany. Every bed is taken, the dishwasher runs everyday, along with the washer and dryer. There are gifts to wrap and a house to clean, but these times are precious and I’m thankful for every minute.
My house is decorated with simple things this year and my granddaughters helped with every decoration. We made photo tags of family members and mixed them with little woodland animals on the tree. It’s the perfect Christmas tree for Lily’s tiny hands and she loves looking at the photos.
A simple candle in glass…
…surrounded by cranberries and glitter stars…
And on the mantle candles are wrapped in Christmas ribbon…
We decorated a topiary with pink Christmas lights that were sent to me from Pamela in Indiana. I love these lights!
Like so many of you I find the holidays bittersweet. It’s a time of joy mixed with feelings of loss for those who are missing.
I hope this Christmas finds each of you surrounded with joy. Merry Christmas everyone!
Hugs,
Anne
16 Comments
Renee
Everything is beautiful! Enjoy this special time with your family. Many blessings!
Pam in Indiana
Hi Anne!
So happy to see that you are enjoying having your family with you, too, this Christmas! I love the idea for ornaments that are ‘kid friendly’! When my children were small, I had them put their hands behind their backs when looking at Christmas ornaments. When our eldest, Meaghan, was about three, would obediently put her hands behind her back but she would manage to ‘touch’ the ornaments with her chubby tummy!
We have three of our kids home from college — the older kids had to work over Christmas — and we have had tons of their high school friends come to visit, play old Mario video games, spend the night and eat! I love having them home and reminiscing about growing up together. Right now we are in the midst of a blizzard — so we are staying in and eating all of the food I have been cooking all week!!
I am especially delighted to see what you did with the pink lights I sent! Thanks for posting the picture! You can NEVER have too much pink, can you??? :0)
XO
Pam♥
SandyD
Merry Christmas.I love the tag ornaments
three of our four Daughters 6 grandkiddies and SIL will be arriving soon. Daughter number 4 is a police officer 5 hours away and will not be home.