No Charlie Brown Tree For Us This Year!

When we first moved to LA we would go back to New Jersey for the holidays.  Because of that, we did something that I was so against…we bought an artificial Christmas tree.  Oh how I hated it.  When I grew up, one of the best things about Christmas was going out to cut down our Christmas tree.  The family always had so much fun, my grandmother would leave pieces of tissue on the trees she liked but we always had a hard time going back to find them! When we lived back east and are kids were little, we’d bundle ...

Oh Christmas Tree!!

The day after Thanksgiving all the bins containing our holiday decorations were scattered throughout the garage.  Strings of lights were all over, garland was piled up, inflatables were pulled out their boxes, it was a chaotic scene.  By the end of the day, the outside of the house was lit up, ornaments were hanging on the tree, nutcrackers lined the top of our cabinets and the holiday season had officially begun in our house.  Yesterday, one of my sons was sitting at the counter eating breakfast when he said to me, “Mom, I LOVE getting all decorated for the holidays and the house looks great ...