| With the Christmas season fast upon us, it is time to | | | | This will be great fun for the kids and me, as we get |
| start decorating our homes in the festive spirit. Many | | | | to spend an afternoon making paper snowflakes. You |
| families use the same decorations year after year. | | | | remember those don't you? You know the ones we |
| Others go all out and try to change their design style | | | | all used to make in elementary school, where you |
| with every passing season. As the holidays tend to | | | | fold up a round piece of paper and take little snippets |
| be a time when people do a lot of entertaining in | | | | out of it with scissors to make unique snowflake |
| their homes, why not consider adding something | | | | patterns. So much fun! We will also use lots of those |
| extra to your holiday décor? | | | | silver icicles, and snowmen of various shapes and |
| In years past, we have approached our holiday | | | | sizes. |
| decorations with a certain theme in mind. One year, | | | | Decorating your home really helps get your family |
| we decorated our home to look like Santa's | | | | and friends into the Christmas spirit. We usually invite |
| workshop. Another time, we dressed our living room | | | | our extended families over to help. This gives all the |
| like a life-sized nativity scene. Last year was my | | | | children an opportunity to share in what has become |
| favorite, by far! We transformed our home into a | | | | a wonderful family tradition. It also gives the adults a |
| beach complete with sand and palm trees, and had | | | | chance to enjoy some good company and maybe |
| Christmas in Hawaii. The opportunities are endless. If | | | | even some spiced-up egg nog! Later in the day we |
| you are planning to have guests over during this | | | | will likely all gather around the television and watch |
| holiday season, consider trying something new. | | | | our favorite Christmas movie. We like to watch "A |
| This year we are decorating our home in a winter | | | | Christmas Story" every year as a family. This year, I |
| wonderland theme. The idea is to transform our living | | | | want a Red Rider BB gun. On second thought, I'll |
| room into....you guessed it....a winter wonderland. We | | | | probably shoot my eye out! |
| are planning to use a lot of blues, whites, and silver. | | | | |