All The Holidays!

I am struggling with wanting to work on my scrapbooks and wanting to get our home ready for Valentine's Day plus getting the crafts done for St. Patrick's Day!  I love holidays but it seems every year that I end up skipping either Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day for major decorating.  Not this year.  I want to be sure I am ready for it all!  I forgot to mention the first holiday for us is Groundhog's Day on February 2.  That is the anniversary of my parent's wedding.  We celebrate their anniversary with dinner for the whole family at one of their favorite restaurants and an anniversary cake at home after.  I will take photos of the event and post them!  My grandson's birthday is February 16 and we will have a celebration for that day for him.  He will be 15 this year.  My Daddy's birthday is March 12 and we will celebrate that with dinner and a cake too!  He is celebrating in Heaven with Mama and God, but we still remember their special days here.  We miss them so much.  And that wraps up holidays for us for February and March.  The day my Mama went to Heaven is March 25 and we usually try to go away that day-to Ohio or Hershey or another place she loved to travel to, depending on the day of the week it falls on.  I am not sure about this year, although it is a Friday.  But if we are home we will get together and go out to dinner.  If we go away it will probably be to Ohio and maybe not until Saturday.  Now that we have only teenagers it is harder to take them out of school for a trip.  They are studying college courses and have so much homework to keep up those Distinguished High Honors.  

I left up the big gorgeous tree in the dining room.  It was red for Christmas for the first time ever.  Now it has poinsettias removed and there are beautiful red hearts on mixed in with the red decorations.  It is lovely and will work beautifully with the red and pink decorations for Valentine's Day tea!  I love to use my Old Country Rose china.  It is the oldest china pattern contiguously manufactured in the world and is made by  Royal Albert.  I just love when the holidays coordinate with pink and rose and burgundy! All of which reminds me that I have not made my list for the Valentine tea I have planned for February 19.

I did put up another smaller tree in the kitchen.  The black tree goes with all the red and black farmhouse decorations we have.  It is cute beside the candy bar.  

Are you ready for the first holiday this year?  What things will you do to celebrate this Valentine's Day?  Do you have any special things you are crafting?  Will it be a "date night" or dinner with the family?  Do you have a special dessert planned?  All these ideas are running through my head at once...haha!  I know we will be going out to dinner with the family.  And as far as dessert goes, I have not chosen that yet.  But the house looks quite festive and ready for Valentine's Day.  I will post photos soon!

So This Is Christmas

 

So this is Christmas...

I hope you had fun.

I had bronchitis...and had to take 4 Covid tests which were all negative.  And I had to have antibiotics and steroids and a puffer and Pine Brothers cough drops...and I coughed and coughed.  It was horrible, but I drank gallons of water a day.  And then I noticed the weight gain from the steroids.  I am still battling that and it will be one month tomorrow since I was diagnosed.  The entire month of December I was tired and did not feel well.  My daughter Karina put up almost all the Christmas trees...22 of them this year.  And since I am trying to catch up on life in general, John, Karina, Caroline, Isabella, JW and Nate took them down.  I am getting the Valentine decorations out and doing two trees and putting out the rest of the decor.  I am having a Sweet Stitchin' party on February 1st for my fellow cross stitchers.  For the month of February we will start new stitching projects as often as we wish.  For some of us that will be every day and for some of us it might be one or two for the month or any amount that we have time for.  If you cross stitch, join us on Facebook at 1 Nana 2 Girls for a month of Sweet Stitchin' and prizes.  Here is the link.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/423262886255970.  

Here are some photos of my latest finishes for winter and spring.  These are not my starts for February but pieces I stitched this month and some from years ago...