It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This past week here hasn't been too busy, but boy has it flown by. Traveling with Jackson can be exhausting, so we took a few days to regroup. Fortunately, Jackson wanted to catch up on his sleep, so he napped really well the first 2 days back. Since Thanksgiving, we've been working on getting things ready for Christmas.

Given that we have a very curious crawler and we will be in Jersey for the holidays, we have decided not to put up a Christmas tree. I knew I would spend 99% of my day playing "keep away" with Jackson. Though we will have no tree, I still had to decorate. I tried to be a bit more creative and decorate things from above cruising level. Here are the results:

With out a mantel, I placed garland and lights along the back of the sofa with my stuffed Santa's.

I wrapped our art piece with ribbon and am using it a display for our holiday cards.

Dining room table centerpiece


Sugared fruit garland that usually goes on the tree is now on our chandelier.

My angel tree topper is now on display by the tv.

Finally, I hung ornaments from my curtain rods and love how they shine in the light.

I also got a little festive in the kitchen. I made snickerdoodles and sugar cookies for a cookie exchange over the weekend. My snickerdoodles need some tweaking, but the sugar cookies came out really well and I think I've mastered decorating with royal icing. I'm now hooked and want to make sugar cookies all the time...


And since this blog is about Jackson, here are some new photos of him this past week...