Happy Christmastide, dear friends & family! Our family is coming in this weekend right after Christmas day, and I wanted to bring out all of our favorite family decorations from holidays past. Let’s see what all has shown up…
Welcome inside our home!
Our sweet angel welcomes you inside from her home right by the front door…
I am excited to share our (mostly) cleaned up living room with you! I am still cleaning and clearing in our large bookcases, plus finishing up a few boxes from the craft room ~ they are hiding behind the sofa table.
Our living room wears a cheery mix of florals and sweet pillows ~ many over 30 years old now. The Waverly rose fabric I picked up just after we moved here. I created several different pillow covers which easily zip off and for this holiday season, these came out to play. The little gingerbread pillow was a find during the 2024 season.
Our Christmas tree still has its nutcrackers standing guard over all of the unwrapped presents below. I have been out shopping and pulling things from around the house that I think should pass onto our adult children now so they can enjoy them. Time to wrap!
Our son asked for this telephoto lens we found years ago now, at a garage sale just around the corner from our Big House in California, one summer weekend. He was with me that day, and had expressed an interest in having it, since I haven’t used it. It needs some kind of attachment to make it worth with either of our cameras, and he could get more use out of it than I can.
This library tea table is the perfect size to hold a tabletop tree. The older I get, I like to bring out the big tree one year and switch to one of the smaller trees in the next.
And thank the heavens for lighted Christmas trees! That was the biggest chore, which I really loathed. Amy or Peter would often do the lights for me, but even they grew tired of “helping Mom.” 😉 Amy really enjoyed hanging our family ornaments. We would talk about where they came from, if my Grammy had sent them (my mother), and about the childhood ornaments I was given back in the 1970’s and beyond.
This green Waverly tree I found at Sam’s Club for I think $29.00??! just after we moved here. Its first Christmas with us was in our RV.
Here are a few ornaments I found to tie on our family packages this year. We found these at a truck stop, I think, in Nebraska. Adorable!
Some quick looks around the room… Time to give a good cleaning to the quarter-round hutch, too.
Over on the coffee table, I placed one of our nativities in amongst the greenery along with a pretty new candle nestled inside a favorite hurricane glass.
With our grandson coming down, I thought he would enjoy playing in amongst all of the Santa pillows. He can bring all the stuffies over from the sofa table and make Christmas scenes with them.
I am sure a few Super Heroes and other toys will come along on their journey south, too.
And here is our living room… the parts I can share. I cut off the bookcases from this angle because that is still a bit of a Christmas disaster area, lol! Think Home Alone without cans of paint spraying everywhere. 😉
Thank you for your visit to day! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and/or Hannukah with your family. I’ll post up tomorrow’s Day 11 & 12 combined in the morning with SYS in the evening for you. Feel free to share and pin any photos from all of these posts, now or after the holidays! Hugs from North Texas!!
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Christmas Blessings to you,
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It’s so festive and fun. I love bringing out things we don’t see everyday and savoring them — and the memories attached — from year to year. I’m sure your holiday was very happy!
Thank you, Jeanie! Our son and grandson arrived this evening in time for dinner. A bit of fun playing Gingerbread with Daddy and Grampa trying to catch little Milo. Helped wear him out a bit before quieting down for bed.
Milo liked our decorations and I’m sure he will really look at them tomorrow. Too tired today. Good memories!