Christmas Decor: An Obsession

Did you enjoy all those amazing posts about all the fun advent activities that I planned for my kids? What was that? You never saw them? Weird. I am sure that Martha Stewards spies intercepted them in the world wide web and are now planning my demise. OR with all the busyness of the season, I stumbled into bed every night with a candy cane stuck to my hair. (It's like a choose your own adventure). And now I've started the New Year out with a nasty cold that has invaded Phoebe and me. We are like the walking dead around here. And to top it off my husband who does 90% of the work around here is in Savannah, Georgia. He'll be home soon and we all can't wait to eat again.

I really should have recorded what my house looked like after Christmas because it was horrendous. Horrendous is really too kind of a word, really it looked like Santa ate his toy bag, drank bad eggnog and then threw up in my living room. And then I was so overwhelmed by the vomit I just sat in it for a few days. The new toys have mostly found their place in the house but the tree is still up and the lights are still on and well I like them. And the house feels full and complete when it's all fancifived.

I'm sorry most of my pictures are blurry. And while I'm at it, I'm sorry that I even feel the need to apologize about them. I broke my regular lens for my "good" camera and have been using the zoom lens to get by. Which means that I have to stand in the next country to take a photo and hold my breath so that it won't be fuzzy. I can. not. stand. how pictures look when using a flash and because of that and my lens issue . . . blurry (blah!)

Here are just a few corners of the house that made me smile this holiday.

The kids and I made these little paper NOEL banners as gifts this year.