Today is the first of December…yikes! That mean’s we’re in full 25 days until Christmas countdown. I have mentioned on several occasions that MC loves decorating for Christmas. It’s a slow burn, mainly because we now have many more rooms than we had at the apartment, and now we can actually decorate the outside. Huzzah! So, between now and the holidays, I’ll try to post what we’ve done in and around the house, just for fun. The first small little area to get decorated was the little nook in our kitchen by the windows.
MC really wanted to get a mini Christmas tree for that area, and while we were in Blue Ridge Georgia, we hit up our favorite Christmas store Fezziwigs and picked up some fun decorations. We were able to find the mini tree as a set of 3 at Lowe’s, so that means that two other rooms in our house will be getting the mini tree-tment soon.
Along with the mini tree, we got this neat little advent calendar, that is a string of mittens. Inside each mitten is a small decoration that will find it’s way onto the little tree. By Christmas, this mini tree will have 25 cute little felt decorations on it.
Rounding out the nook are the slowflakes hanging in the window. We got a 4-pack at Target for $1, and hung them with some tape and fishing line.
The only down side to all this is that it’s towards the back of our house, so the only person who can really see it well is our rear neighbor, who seems like a very nice lady. We have named her “Mamma Fratelli” though, because she sort of looks like the character from the Goonies, and seems to always wear black when doing yard work. I have yet to actually meet her, but if I start chatting with her and she invites me in for ice cream, and then attemps to put my hand in a blender…well then my nickname will hold true.
Oh, and we did add one more little touch to the kitchen. We found this fun gingerbread advent tree at Kohl’s for under $20, and we liked it, so now we have like three advent trees in our house. Someone better fill them with candy so that I can eat it all. That someone knows who she is.
About Matt and MC
We just recently bought our first home, and we decided to share our story of our adventures with you. The ups and downs of home ownership, and all the fun we'll have in between. Ignore the typos and just have fun, that's what we're here for. 
