Oh my goodness - at least you have your daughter home with you. Maybe she will help you some and the decorating will be even easier.
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Oh my goodness - at least you have your daughter home with you. Maybe she will help you some and the decorating will be even easier.
Our Christmas disaster wasn't REALLY a disaster, just the result of a rough year. It was the year my dad died. I was 7, my sister was 12. Santa Claus had arranged for us to get bikes before my dad...
We use a little ceramic tree that already has the lights on it and really no way to put decorations on it. But, the end table we put it on has a lower and upper table. The tree goes on the upper...
We put lights on the porch railing and the railings that line the walkway from the driveway to the house.
That my entire family would be together for one time - we have family in Iowa and Texas that just can't travel right now, and my mom has great-grandkids that she has never seen other than in pictures.
Going out to Thanksgiving dinner with my cousins. We all plan for our Christmas dinner that happens the Sunday before Christmas and we all wear our most Christmas-y sweatshirts and jewelry.
We have the Coca Cola houses/accessories, the Lennox houses/accessories, and LOTS of angels. We use a little ceramic tree that was my grandmothers because we really don't have room for a big tree.
I do the living room, dining room/kitchen, my Mom's room stays decorated, and lights on the porch/sidewalk rails outside.
We never use it - too dangerous for pets, little grandkids, and vacuum cleaners.