windinthemaples

This four-day weekend was our best ever. I cannot say enough about the benefits of staying home for once. We got so much accomplished, spent glorious amounts of time together, and were able to celebrate the transition from autumn harvest to winter celebrations. We dined! We cried through A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa! We wrapped dozens and dozens of gifts and bought dozens more. We're pretty much set on that whole Yule gifty-gift thing and that gives us the luxury of an entire month to relax and enjoy the fruits of our labors. :) Last year, we didn't even have a tree up in our last-minute scramble, so this feels really good.

We use and reuse an artificial Yule tree but this year we brought home some greenery from the florist--fresh-cut boughs of holly and a beautiful evergreen and pinecone wall arrangement of sorts that just has to be misted on occasion. Sunday, we hit up our storage facility and dug around for that box of ornaments and a few other seasonal odds and ends. Here are the festive results of our decorating!