CHRISTMAS DECOR

I am a little late at joining the party!!!

First an update on my mom:

I went to Duke University yesterday to meet my parents there.

My mother had a doctor's appointment and chemo.

There was some good news. She gained almost four pounds last week.

The medication they gave her to increase her appetite helped.

She was able to get her chemo treatment this week because the eating helped with

her blood count. She still is so weak and frail. She isn't walking anymore, she is in a wheelchair. She is not the same person she was just two

months ago. I watched her sleep as she was receiving her treatment and just watched that medication drip from that bag and through that line that is connected to her port.

It is a picture I will carry with me forever.

The little room was silent, but that drip was the loudest sound I have ever heard.

My mom's 70th birthday is tomorrow, yeah, bitter sweet.

We were planning on going to visit, but we are expecting some icy roads tomorrow and

am not sure if we will be able to go.

I will feel so guilty if I do not see her tomorrow.

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I thought I'd add to the Christmas house tours.

Can you believe that next week, at this time, it will be Christmas Eve?

I can hardly believe it.

Christmas is my favorite time of year, but this year it really has become a blur.

That's okay.

I am just staying focused of the true meaning of Christmas.

I gave this statue of a Saint Bernard to The Man of The House

for Father's Day in memory of Cleo.

We put it in Cleo's spot outside by the front steps.

my tree in the family room

some of the ornaments.....

love this snowman!

I have my girls' and all of my pets' paw prints on the tree.

I make a salt dough that you bake and paint and make ornaments.

This is Muffin's paw print. She was one of our West Highland Terriers we had before having kids.

She lived to be 18 and Nicholas, the other Westie, lived to be 17.

I love when I unpack these ornaments!

the mantle in the family room

I have a lot of Santas and elves hanging around the house.

Christmas dishes

nothing formal here.... just casual and fun!!

the dining room

I have a tree in the dining room that is gold. The angel in the background was made by one of the girls. It's body is a feather and I LOVE how it flutters all day long.

It is holding a nail to symbolize the cold manger made of wood and nails where Jesus was born and also of the cross and nails where Jesus died.

yep, awkward picture of the tree

I also posted some decorations the other day of the foyer and some of my Santas.

Hope you enjoyed!!

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