Around The House on Christmas Eve!

Welcome to Casa Bob y Carlos! Since we keep Christmas pretty much to ourselves, and the cats and dog, it's a nice calming, peace-filled time; plus, it doesn't hurt that we both have the week off, so, yeah, there's that, too.

But we do like a little decoration around the house, though we don’t go overboard like a lot of these Southerners who have trees in every room—seriously, the bathroom?—but we like shiny and pretty and quirky, too.

The Christmas table is ready, big balls, because we like big balls and we cannot lie.

And a quartet of some of our favorite ornaments … beginning with Latino Santa…our three Asian Wise men, huddled beneath a disco ball because, well, gay… a ‘Nice ‘one for Carlos—sadly, every single photo of the ‘Naughty’ one came out blurry, go figure … and lastly, my Christmas Wish …Peace.

The candles on the mantles have flickering lights that come on at 5PM and go off promptly at 10PM; sounds cheesy, but with curious cats, a live flame is a dangerous thing.

Some ornaments nestled in fake snow and ice, and a few ornaments decorating the windows between the living room and sunroom. The snowflakes are metal and very beautiful, but on the tree,  they get lost, so hanging them in the window is the next best thing.

My mother used to do something called Tole painting, and she painted all kinds of Santa’s and Mister and Missus Claus that we put around the house … it’s like she’s here every year.

And finally, who doesn’t have a reindeer on the kitchen table?

Just sayin’ ….

Merry Merry and Happy Happy!