Getting Ready For Christmas....

Merry Christmas. Thanks for opening your home. Everything is beautiful

A very Happy Christmas to you ,Loosestrife..and to Sadie ,Emily and Emma,who are all beautiful..I hope you get to go fishing on Christmas day..I have loved your blog,photo's and seeing your home,which looks so welcoming..thank you for sharing with us...:o)

Your home looks soo warm and cosy Ls...love the ribbons on the tree. The fire looks fab...so unusual. :-)

This was a big surprise - I'd been told that Americans make more of Thanksgiving than Christmas and only have one day's holiday...had no idea you decorated like that!

Well, Thanksgiving is for the family coming over and finishing off a table loaded with food and then the men watch the college football games and the women keep up with family goings on. There is really no decorating done. Christmas is for celebration and making the home very festive with plenty of lights and decorations both inside and outside the home as much as one wishes. The decorations are put up a week or two before XMas and are brought down a few days after New Years. Any children that go to school have that whole week off. Adults usually take a few vacation days off before or after the holiday. On the down side, the family gets together but there is hardly any personal exchange going on ....all of them are too busy texting, times are changing indeed.

Your dogs are lovely ! I'm pleased you rescued Emma. People can be so cruel.
Merry Christmas to you all :)

How did I miss this?
I hope you did enjoy Christmas with Sadie, Emma & Emily.
Christmas is very much a family time for us with the emphasis on sharing time together. Now that my children are all grown with their own homes in different counties we make more effort to get together as we don't see each other so often.
I loved the way you put your Christmas blog together ....with such a lot of thought & your traditional home is very beautiful.