Patio, Garden and Home Info

The stores are beginning to gear up for the holiday season. The major magazines begin to have holiday themes and Christmas decorating ideas beginning in August. It is easy to become overwhelmed with the holiday time. We invited co-workers, neighbors, friends and relatives. We made homemade candies, cookies, bars and a wide variety of finger foods. We spent all of our time filling punch bowls, making coffee and replenishing serving platters. We looked at the list of people that we invited and agreed that we could eliminate co-workers from the list.

We each had holiday parities at work where we could celebrate the season. We serve appetizers and drinks. I still make a variety of homemade sweets, but now I have a cookie exchange with co-workers at our house.

I still come up with different Christmas decorating ideas, and with fewer people in the house you can actually see the displays. I concentrate on decorating the trees well. Add a few twinkle lights here and there and my Christmas decorating is complete.