PLEASE PUT SOME CHRISTMAS MUSIC ON AND DECORATE

CHRISTMAS music softly playing 
in the background.

DECORATIONS THAT DON'T BREAK THE BANK and look like a thing from the past?  I will attempt to decorate this week-end as the Living room is getting to a place that I can sit a miniature CHRISTMAS TREE by the front windows of our tiny COTTAGE or over on the antique walnut chest against the wall.  

We have made huge progress getting the room to look like we are actual civilized people living here once more. One mustn't look at any of the other rooms as they are under construction.  Unbelievable what we have gone through to finally arrive at the place we are presently at. Pause.  I can be very THANKFUL we arrived.  This move has been terrible.  I am struggling at this task. Make me a liar when I say that I cannot make this COTTAGE work for us. 

AS FOR THE CHRISTMAS TREE, I may just have twinkle lights and velvet garnet colored ribbon bows tied to the branches as I am one exhausted old woman not able to do much more this year.  Hubby is still working on building a new front porch with spindles, spandrels and railing.  It is looking good and I am so pleased with the work he has gotten done on our old house's porch.  So very proud of this.  AS FOR ME, I continue to dig through moving boxes trying to make sense out of this move.  Please put some CHRISTMAS MUSIC on to ease my anxieties.  I have a few. 

Perhaps I will have a larger tree next year.  HOPE so. 

Hubby talked about placing a faux CHRISTMAS TREE on the porch this year.  I wish we could at least do this to add some CHRISTMAS CHARM to our HOME.

   

SO NATURAL.  Perhaps I should consider dried apple and orange slices which would become ornaments hung on the indoor CHRISTMAS TREE.  Pinecones.  Popcorn and cranberry garland strung on string wrapped over the branches with cinnamon sticks tied up with ribbons dangling off of the CHRISTMAS tree's branches.  Walnut shells and acorns.  Should I poke red berries into the branches to give splashes of color for additional decorations?  Maybe some shiny tinsel and paper baskets.  All so simple and yet so beautiful.  Place a star or Angel as a topper on this tree. Unlit miniature candles, electric or battery operated fairy twinkle lights spread about the tree.  

I understand that I have to make exceptions this year as this is just the way it is when downsizing and decluttering during the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.  I'm praying for the day when we are settled and have harmony when it comes to CHRISTMAS time in the HOME.

Decorating is a part of who I am.  I enjoy doing it so much each year especially at CHRISTMAS.  I have to scale way back this year and find some comfort in this as I am still in my own HOME. That's a plus.  I have never gone hungry or been in need of anything.  I am truly a blessed woman.  I place my faith in CHRIST and lean on HIM as my LORD.  He will guide and direct me.  

I will follow.  He will be there at all times and I am never alone.

So whether I decorate or not, CHRISTMAS will come and go.  The blessing of CHRIST is here at all times.  Not just in the decorating.  He is what this season is about and I embrace it.  Amen. Now to calm down and be real.  

 

This is our Christmas Tree a few years ago when I was going more natural then before.  This was in our larger house that we lived in before downsizing to the COTTAGE.  I miss the room we had. Forge ahead.  This tiny COTTAGE is HOME for me now.  What am I learning about LIFE as I live here?

~d