Christmas Mantel
To be sincere, I wasn't going to enhance for Christmas this 12 months.
I've were given my palms full and electricity in any other case occupied this month.
And then there's the daunting idea of having to take all of it down in a few weeks with a new child.
But Wells is antique enough to word this year and I did not want to bah-humbug her holiday so I felt a compromise was in order.
I determined to decorate the mantel and grasp the stockings.
Matthew decided to prepare our pre-lit Christmas tree.
But that is it.
No ornaments, no tinsel, no hours of easy-up come January.
And let's speak approximately this elf at the shelf
Did we leave out the boat on that this 12 months?
What age do you begin that nonsense?
I'm thinking its a small window
My friend Jen encountered some drama with her little elf:
so last yr Fisher failed to like the Elf on the Shelf due to the fact a) it turned into "just a deseration," no longer real and b) the Elf changed into a snitch. This year, the drama continues with "Mama, he DOES NOT live inside the North Pole. He lives in our attic all of the time. I'm certainly severe. He lives inside the attic. In a field." ...And so the Christmas Spirit lives on in our household....
And I'm going to be linking this to a little holiday blog fun so you can see all kinds of inspiration here and here