The Sewing Mom

Do you decorate your home for the holidays?  We do and most of the decorating falls into my hands, not because I want to do it, but because I am the only one who will do it!

The decorations have been laying around the family room for a week now.  I’m really tired of looking at all the bins and mess.  One chair is covered in garland and ornaments, waiting to be hung.  Unfortunately, I need help holding the ladder in order to hang the garland and there is usually no one but me around, so there it sits.  If’ it’s not done by tomorrow I think I will simply put it back into a bin and be done with it!

I did put up my second small tree today.  I collect the Barbie Celebration ornaments and so I finally bought a 4 ft. tree just for those ornaments.  I buy the new one each year, it’s my treat to myself.  I’m not sure why I started collecting them, but I didn’t start until the 2nd year.  So, of course, I’m missing the first one.  Oh well, maybe I’ll run across it at an antique store some day!  I’ve been collecting for 13 years so this year I will buy my 14th ornament.  My daughter also has 2 other Barbie ornaments that she hangs on that same tree.  I put it in our dining room this year, in front of the window so it can be seen from the street.

Our big tree is in our family room which is on the back of the house.   It is loaded with ornaments that we’ve collected over the years.  We try to buy an ornament when ever we visit some place new.  It makes it fun to unwrap the ornaments each year and remember the trips we’ve made.

So I hope to finish the decorating by tomorrow and get all the bins put back into the storage closet.  Then maybe I can relax for the remainder of the holiday period.