Festive but not task oriented

Christmas Luminaries, 2011

Color catalogs from the same merchants continue to arrive nearly every week.

I am about to "unsubscribe" to email from other merchants filling up my email box with special deals and dire warnings about shipping holiday gifts. 

Last year, we sent our holiday card and letter out after Christmas and we'll be doing the same thing this year.  

We are going to hold our annual holiday open house, but that is the least commercial event you can imagine.  In some cases, it's the one time of the year that we see old friends....or where people show up that we haven't seen in 10-20 years.  Always a pleasure!

I'm still decorating the house, fitting that into little bursts of time and energy.