My family really loves spending time together during the holidays. We start decorating our house right after Thanksgiving, and there is not one table in our house that doesn't have some type of Christmas decoration! My husband buys 75 plus feet of white pine roping and decorates the doorways of each room making the house look and smell terrific. Holiday theater and activities are attended, family and friends come and go and dozens of cookies are baked, decorated and enjoyed. This year, we even found time to go ice skating in the city, which was really fun. Our tree is always packed with ornaments from childhood on and lights are strewn in various colors. But the best part of the busiest time of year is having family together especially now that the two oldest are working in NYC and the girls in college. It is a lot more fun putting everything up than taking it down, but we carefully pack away all of our ornaments looking forward to next year.
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| Our gingerbread cookies! |
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| This tree was passed down from my husband's great grandmother. His sister added the plaid bows. |
The holidays are always fun! The house looked beautiful! And I'm yet to find better cookies in New York.
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This post really resonated with me, as I am in the process of putting my decorations away this week--and it feels like it takes all week too! Your house is always particularly cheery at Christmas. Love the antique tree especially. Thank goodness I had some yummy pear tart to help motivate me to keep going!!
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