The cookies have been delivered

I mentioned to DH that a little wreath would be nice on the kitchen window

And, just like that, this!

Taken a minute ago. (Note, the snow)

Merry Christmas Eve to all. No sleigh rides this year, no snow, just rain.

@schoolhouse_gwagain That’s beautiful piece.

Our front tree.

@Annie, at this time many of us are thinking of loved ones not with us. Your mom would be so pleased to see your wreath and reindeer. Or is it reindeers?

@User Thats a funny ornament, charming and sweet. Is it a reindeer?

Polish food items! I did not wait until the last minute and went to the Polish deli early last week. Fortunately, this is only about 10 minutes from my house.

Thats a funny ornament, charming and sweet. Is it a reindeer?

Socks, it is a little donkey dressed up as an angel. She is in memory of a sweet little jenny named Chalupa.

It is a Patience Brewster ornament.

Santa comes to my street on the fire engine every Christmas Eve. A tradition for us for 50 years.

Christmas. A welcoming wreath on our front door, for family and friends. Merry Christmas!!!

Celebrations with friends.

Aquaman Christmas

This year's big memory will be adding cabinets, during a pandemic with all the delays- here we are Christmas Eve, eve. Also canceling plans to see parents, dad has covid again. Vaxed, boosted and mild case in August, it's mild again :^) Didn't want to risk anything though, DD has White Coat ceremony after the holidays.

Its not Christmastime until i get out my silver snowflakes

We've ended up with too many sweets again, but the treadmill can wait as I intend to enjoy this for a time.

And now we are awaiting our guests.

My Nutcrackers: Medicine Man and Chimney Sweep.

All holidays and Christmas were magical in the little village I spent the first twelve years of my life in. I think for a lot of us those first years hold a special place. Even though I can remember exactly when I stopped believing in Santa, my non belief didn't take away the excitement. One year someone I knew had the nerve to dress up as Santa and crash my parents Christmas eve party where all the adults tried to convince little four year old me that my dads friend (who smelled of whiskey) was the real Santa. I wouldn't have it and loudly exclaimed, then there isn't a Santa. I got a lot of shushing but it did no good lol.

Sometimes the Lyons Club would do something in our little town hall.

Not sure if they still do

As seen in Carlsbad, CA. I have a hard time keeping them alive at home.

I got this beautiful pot at the supermarket. They almost look fake. I keep them outside away from the kitties.

The little NOEL elves were the first decorations I'd look for when I was a kid. Couldn't wait to get them out of the box, put the little candles in and set them on the piano. I thought they were lost to time, but my brother found them stashed in a box last year and gave them to me. They make me smile every time I pass them. The Santa was one of the first decorations I bought when I got married. His robe is made of paper and has held up pretty good for over 40 years. This says Christmas to me.

Another poinsettia

And one more

You can see I like the pink varieties!

Merry Christmas everyone.

A few still shots of various decorations about the house.

Carmelita (and Fred) dressing up for Christmas is one of my highlights. I love decorating the house and having friends and family in for visits.

Merry Christmas, everyone!!

My fave Christmas decor is the old marble urn i fill with ornaments for the table in our entry hall.

Here is our flocked tree in the family room; bonus! - real snowonthe trees outside too!

DR: The stockings are hung by the chimney with care:

And our fresh cut tree in the living room. The smallest we have ever had. We usually don't get a tree until Dec 15 but even though we went early they were almost sold out. Well, it sure was easier to decorate!

Also a small tree. I call it our “rescue tree” since it came from my department office suite. No lights because it’s a little dry. Also keep it in the kitchen so needles are not all over the house.

And someone gift wrapped himself. He is clearly the best present 🎁

Love the fridge @gsciencechick!

Some beautiful arrangements in these pix. I confess that we don't do as much - Christmas in mid-summer just doesn't have the same feeling.

gscience, cautionary tale. I had a bag like that with those handles on a chair. Mila put her head through the handle to look inside and then went to pull her head out...the bag came with her. She took off like a shot with the bag rattling loudly everywhere she went. Somehow she ran downstairs, peeing all the way as she was so frightened. The noise was terrible and scared Misty who was downstairs and took off like a shot. I managed to finally grab hold of Mila and get the bag off her head...clean up the pee that was all down the stairs. Then I saw Misty and her back feet were bloody. Poor cat. We have level loop carpeting and when she took off, her claws must've caught in the rug, ripping two out of each of her back paws. She ended up at the vets getting her feet treated. Fortunately her claws grew back just fine. But now I'm very careful about bags with handles on them!

There will only be 4 of us tomorrow, thank you COVID. But the table is all set...

jterri...enlarge the pic....they are wearing festive bows

It's actually Christmas morning now, my time - so I'm prepping the prawns and fixing a salad. Dessert will be sliced strawberries and chunks of fresh mango tossed in mint sugar. Good for a warm climate Christmas 😋

Merry Christmas jmm!!!

And a Merry Christmas, whenever it arrives, to all the denizens of "I'll show you mine!"

Breakfast on the eve of Christmas

Watching Christmas Vacation with the family, an annual tradition. Merry Christmas!

Annie I see it now!

From my childhood. I love plugging it in every year.

Best part of my day. Santa brought me a neck massager and DS made me a cocktail before I started making dinner.

Don’t mind my makeup; it makes me look a bit pale.

Guess what part of this snack for our traditional Christmas Scrabble game tells you we are Canadian. :)

Daisy, are you a Belieber? lol I am.

LOL, 2katz!

One of the gifts my dad got me:

Until I saw DD’s MIL’s Presepe (traditional Neapolitan creche) I hadn’t realised

Bethlehem had a pizzeria.......

Pizzeria 😂