I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

In a few short days we will all be celebrating Christmas according to the traditions we have formed over the years. Ours will be spent with some of our children on Christmas eve. Eating, talking, laughing, and eating! and eating! and eating!

Christmas eve day we will have sledding with the grandchildren

and baking with our daughters.

Christmas day will be just Dale and I and Landon home enjoying the day together.

So from my door to your door, I want to wish you all a blessed Christmas day.


I will be away from my blog starting tonight until about the first of the year.
Christmas hugs to you all!

White Wednesday and a special little Nativity

Today I would like to share with you my favorite Christmas decoration in the house. This little clay Nativity was made by my oldest child Kimberlee when she was in fifth grade. She was the only one of my children that was lucky enough to have Mrs. Hendrickson as her teacher. My daughter's class was her last in this little Idaho town. She had been raised here and I believe that this was her first teaching job after graduating college. She and her husband moved from here and she took a teaching job elsewhere, but not before she left her wonderful mark on many students here. One of the things she enjoyed teaching each of her fifth grade classes was working in pottery and baking them in her kiln. I have some sweet little pieces of art made by Kim, with the help of her teacher. This Nativity means so much to me and I love displaying it every Christmas. I'm very lucky that Kim hasn't asked for this little set, because I really don't know that I could part with it. Every year when I unwrap this little trio, I am flooded with memories of my sweet little fifth grader and how proud she was the day she brought this home.

A lot of my Christmas decorations are very humble and wouldn't be worth much at a thrift store, but they have the power to take me back through time and unbury memories that bring back the magic of the season. To me they are priceless!

If you love white like I do, you may want to go to Kathleen's Faded Charm for some real white inspiration.

I wish all of you a wonderful White Wednesday!

A beautiful giveaway...

Can you believe how sweet this is?! This is what Dawn at The Feathered Nest is offering to the winner of her giveaway celebrating her 1200th post and 400 followers. Can you believe 1200 posts?! Sometimes I wonder if I will hang in that long!
Run right over there to Dawn's to enter to win this little pretty made by her very own talented hands. Good luck to us all!!!