fourth sunday of advent
we lit our fourth candle this evening. the fourth sunday always takes me by surprise.
we had a delicious dinner of pasta carbonara with cookies (honey moon and gingerbread cats) and french chocolates for dessert.
we decorated the tree, but not with all of our ornaments. we have many! my mom and aunt have given us all of them . . really! my mom and her sister just love christmas ornaments. every year they shop in a christmas shop out on montauk and down in annapolis. they find dancing ballerina frogs (and hundreds of dancing ballerina ladies!) and glass pickles, glass raspberries, wooden ships, wooden pigs, crochet snowflakes, glass icicles, little mouse santas, little mouse angels . . it goes on . .
but since our tree this year is a canaan fir, it's branches can only hold a minimum of ornaments. we actually are doing less of something . .
i love our tree skirt. i bought it on sale for half price about six years ago from garnet hill. it was a christmas spring sale . . the best time to buy tree skirts, except for summertime.
we lit our fourth candle this evening. the fourth sunday always takes me by surprise.
we had a delicious dinner of pasta carbonara with cookies (honey moon and gingerbread cats) and french chocolates for dessert.
we decorated the tree, but not with all of our ornaments. we have many! my mom and aunt have given us all of them . . really! my mom and her sister just love christmas ornaments. every year they shop in a christmas shop out on montauk and down in annapolis. they find dancing ballerina frogs (and hundreds of dancing ballerina ladies!) and glass pickles, glass raspberries, wooden ships, wooden pigs, crochet snowflakes, glass icicles, little mouse santas, little mouse angels . . it goes on . .
but since our tree this year is a canaan fir, it's branches can only hold a minimum of ornaments. we actually are doing less of something . .
i love our tree skirt. i bought it on sale for half price about six years ago from garnet hill. it was a christmas spring sale . . the best time to buy tree skirts, except for summertime.
This is a very friendly looking tree. Do you use the same ornaments/candles every year? Beautiful decorations.
ReplyDeleteyes we do use the same ornaments. the girls like putting all of them on . . except for this year. since we didn't get a spruce many of the ornaments stayed in their wrappings. chanda was a bit sad about that.
ReplyDeleteWe also use the same ornaments every year, although we normally don't use all of them. My parents have never been able to combine their tastes when it comes to decorating the tree. My dad loves red Christmas balls and tinsel, my mother straw stars and wooden apples. So they alternate years now!:) Just the white (real)candles stay the same.
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