Re-cap…schmeee-cap. Or…why do I feel like a slug compared to so many…

So…I literally had to look through the months to see what I actually

DID

accomplish this year of twenty-ten.

Not as much as some years…maybe more than other years.

I’m a Libra. And middle child. Surprising, eh?

Started out with a little Laundry re-do

tiled,painted built cabinets, new floor, new lighting…

That was fun…onto

Big butt…The chair with multiple personalities…

Then…the demure little butt chair…who didn’t put up nearly the fight!

Then, somewhere…painting and re-decorating the Livingroom…windows, walls, art…

Then…I lost track… We had a son in the hospital…And, somehow I ended up with three jobs…

…and had a hard time keeping it all together.

But did continue gardening.

well…keeping plants alive.

Sorta

This year….who knows?

I’m a live by the seat of my pant’s kinda girl…

But....What ‘bout you guys??

Spill.

Join Rhoda to find what other much more energetic than me people have been doing.

Pancha Tantra…and wool slippers...

As we pretended to be snowed in

albeit it WAS cold…we continue to wear our flannel Jammies we got for Christmas…and wool slippers

such decadence in Florida

we played monopoly

not just any monopoly…but electronic banking monopoly…whole new world.

forget 200 clams when you pass go…how about 2mil?

I…perused…a fave gift

Walton Ford’s Paintings in a Taschen Book

a HUGE taschen book called Pancha tantra...

His paintings are often life size

and full of the animal world like you have never seen…provocative

often with scribbled field notes around the edges…

Tantalizing and disturbing

What better combination…while donned in flannel pj’s sipping warm cocoa?

Enjoy your after festivities time…

To A Wonderful, Merry, and Peacefully Chaotic Christmas…

From our Happy{ish}Home…

ok...maybe some of us don't like photo shoots that much

To yours…

You have all made my heart and soul sing.

Each of you…The commenter’s and readers…the non-commenter's and readers…the just looker’s

the e-mailer’s…each of you has warmed…

The veery cockles of my heart.

I think I wuv you. each of you.

Merry Merry Christmas!

And...for what it is worth...

I think the Big Black Dog is smitten with you…too.

yep. Positive

And an extra for what it's worth...Happy 22nd anniversary to us!

yep...cuhrazzy kids married on Christmas Eve!

Imagine.

Martha Stewart had me at cocktail o’clock…

A box of vicks scented puff tissues…

and this lemon ginger hot toddy from Martha

Should cure what ails me.

sniff.

Any other great home remedies for the flu?

A little bit more… Christmas

Try as I might to have lovely natural Christmas decorations…

the kind seen in magazines…

I always end up with a conglomeration

of stuff.

Strewn stuff.

maybe festive…maybe not

In the end…this house is sooo lived in. daily.

so NOT magazine.

Things are always a bit cockeyed

…Strewn.

perfect word for it

used…and not always put back where they belong.

yep.

that’s us.

keeping it real, folks

Merry, merry from our strewn house to yours

please tell me yours is too.

No?

oh.

Merry Mediterranean Christmas…

Just had to share…

from Bok tower

Love this 1929 estate…

you?

Not so white Christmas…

We had a little holiday party…

And someone

forgot to blow out the candles.

yikes stripes.

The crooked tree is enrobed in construction paper gingerbread men from once little hands

and the palm fronds and foliage are happy they are a part of our festivities

perhaps they would have been happier on their own respective trees…but i didn’t stop to ask them with my machete in hand

Hey… it’s Florida…ya gotta embrace it in all it’s tropical glory

not so snowy…

:(

Merry Christmas from the warm climes…

out to water the bromeliads.

sigh

***wanna see more, much more Christmas?...check out the Nester and Julia here and here

Crazy Habitat lamp has a new hat for Christmas…

Someone is in the mood for a party…

Shade found here

Join Rhoda for more Christmas cheer!