Christmas around the house...

I wanted to show a little more of the Christmas decorating I

 did in the house this year.

The silver balls are hanging in the kitchen from a high shelf I have over

the chalkboard that is my 'brain'.

And in the living room, a few more touches here and there.

The reading room is where the grandchildren hang out when they are here.

So don't ask me why this is where I chose to put three little jars of glass

balls in there.

This is also the room that the tree will go up in.

In the family room, my husband hung a shelf behind the wood stove.

I consider it my mantel. 

I lit up the scrolly iron garden pots that I brought in from the garden again

and put them on it this year. 

A little shabby shelf between the living room and kitchen.

In the mirror above the living room sofa I hung the little vintage

baby mittens I picked up at the antique shop a few weeks ago.

This is such a joyous time!

I love this time to celebrate the birth of my Savior.
I love that I take more time to consider the 'gift' that He was to the world.
I love that I live where I am free to honor Him in the
way that I choose to.

I love the school Christmas concerts, the church Nativity displays,

 the holiday baking,

the Christmas movies on the television.

 (I can't wait to make time to sit down and watch my all

time favorites...The Christmas Carole and Little Women)

I save them until the week before Christmas))

I love the smell of cinnamon and pine.

I love that whenever a friend and I part, that we wish each other a Merry Christmas, 

and hug longer than we usually do.

I love that I go around every morning doing my daily chores

 humming some carole of the season.