Welcome Back to Our Christmas Corner

Merlin loves Christmas

Welcome Back to Our Christmas Corner

After a couple of quiet years, this little Christmas corner of the internet is glowing again.

When I first started this blog, it was never meant to be big or polished. It was a place to gather family stories, favourite recipes, photos of decorations we loved, and the small traditions that make the season feel like home. Mostly, it was shared with family—and that was always enough.

Life has a way of shifting seasons, and for a while this space rested. But Christmas has a long memory, and I’ve missed having a place to tuck these moments away. So here we are again.

What This Blog Is

This blog has always been — and will remain — family-centred. You’ll find:

• Stories from our home and holidays

• Recipes that are practical, nostalgic, or just plain comforting

• Decor and craftideas that lean more meaningful than perfect

• Pets who inevitably wander into photos

• And occasional “how-to” posts — the kind you’d share over coffee.

It’s about presence, memory, and enjoying the season as it actually unfolds.

A New Rhythm for the Year

Originally, this blog was intended to be active only in the Christmas Holiday season — which still feels like its natural home. That won’t change.

But going forward, I’ll also be adding one or two posts each month throughout the year. These will reflect the quieter side of Christmas living: seasonal rhythms, preparation without pressure, small traditions, and the gentle ways we carry the spirit of the season even when the tree is packed away. It is also a time to start making plans and getting ahead in our holiday preparations.

Changing Times

Time has passed since this space was last active, and with time has come change — some of it tender, some of it hard, all of it part of living. Christmas, like family, doesn’t stand still, and neither do we.

What remains is the intention behind this blog: to gather what matters, to remember with kindness, and to make room for joy where it appears.

One such bright spot is Merlin, our Keeshond puppy, who joined the family eight months ago. He is part of our present — a cheerful presence woven into the season as it is now

Looking Ahead

Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing a series of new posts to gently re-fill this space — recipes, reflections, photos, and a few practical ideas that have become part of our holiday rhythm.

If you’ve been here before, welcome back.

If you’re new, I’m glad you found your way here.

Pull up a chair. The kettle’s on.

Watercolour Snowmen for Co-workers

 I painted some watercolour pics of snowmen and put them into glittery frames. They were little and cute and made an inexpensive gift for my co-workers this year. Part card and part gift! 

Snowmen on the Piano

 This year most of our little Snow People got to be on the piano in the living room,

I'm Keeping this Blog

I was going to just forget about this blog, and I have not posted here for 4 years!!!!!!

Anything I had to say was showing up in my other forms of social media, and I felt like this blog seemed redundant. Then this past Holiday season, I looked back here over and over again for recipes and pictures of some of the decor and thought that, even for me, this is handy to have.

 It helps me keep our traditions alive and is somewhere to record new experiences and recipes. I will gradually upload some pics from the last several years, some pics of this year's decor and a few recipes I keep misplacing. I think I might put the same posts on my main blog, Leading a Healthy Life, so please forgive me for any redundancy you might find.

 It will primarily stay a seasonal blog, but I will try to celebrate Rudolph Day and record something here. Have you heard about Rudolph day? It is when people take the 25th day of each month and try and do something Christmassy. They try out recipes for the following Christmas, shop for and wrap presents, and maybe do some holiday crafting. It is somewhere between celebrating Christmas throughout the year and being very organized for the following holiday season. 

 Please join me here at the end of each month for a bit of an update and then weekly after November 12th, 2023!

Welcome to Christmas 2018

 I am excited to report that we managed to pack up all of our Fall and Halloween decorations by November 10th. Usually, we have lingering hints of previous holidays overlapping with my first attempts to dig out the Christmas Stuff so this feels like a very good start to the Holiday Season!     

We live in Canada so we have already celebrated Thanksgiving and we don't have another family birthday until January so I am totally ready to focus on planning for Christmas 2018.

 Bob and I are singing in the Scandinavian Choir once again this year. The theme is a winter sleigh ride so I feel all primed for the winter holidays since we are already into month 3 of learning a snowy, frosty, wintery set of songs. One song that keeps running through my head is called Season of Dreams music by David Angerman words by Joseph Martin. It has a line that goes "Oh, this is the season for hope, a season for sharing, caring. All the world's aglow" and I think that would be a wonderful theme for us during this years holiday.

My goal is to write on this blog every Saturday evening until mid-January.  I might sneak in an extra post or two and share some extra ideas in the middle of the week just for fun! 

I hope you join me as I share our joy during this Season of  Dreams.

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