Living Large In Our Little House

I always become a lit­tle nos­tal­gic this time of year as the old Christmas songs and movies awak­ens the won­der I remem­ber as I child. When I think of my child­hood hol­i­days, my mind takes me back to those spent in my parent’s Little Green Bungalow; as opposed to the sev­eral we spent later in my teen years in the Big Brick Tudor.

The Christmases spent in the Big Brick Tudor were beau­ti­ful. My mother really had the room to dec­o­rate, but it is the cozy hol­i­days in the Little Green Bungalow where my inner child’s heart lies.

My mom loved Christmas, the dec­o­rat­ing, shop­ping, wrap­ping, and espe­cially when we opened our gifts. My par­ents came from the Greatest Generation and as a child dur­ing the Depression; there were many Christmases that Santa left only an orange and a few pieces of candy.

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Thank you so much for read­ing and enter­ing the draw­ing for Jodi Helmer’s book, “The Green Year: 365 Small Things you can do to Make a Big Difference.” The win­ner of the ran­dom draw­ing is Becky! Congratulations, Becky! Please con­tact me via email at fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com with your address. I would also like to thank Jodi Helmer, who made this give­away pos­si­ble. I rec­om­mend you get the book (there’s great deals online today!) it is truly one of the best books out there.

This was so much fun, I’ll be doing give­aways through­out the hol­i­day sea­son, so make sure you check back regularly!

Now, for today’s post:

I didn’t spend Friday try­ing to grab the lat­est deals on more stuff, nor will I spend Cyber Monday try­ing to find the great­est deals online. We used to do the mad shop­ping dash, but do very lit­tle hol­i­day shop­ping now.

Still, this week­end was spent with some old tra­di­tions and with many new ones here at The Little House. When Dale and I had tons of fam­ily to spend to spend the hol­i­days with and we usu­ally had to eat more than one turkey din­ner to make every­one happy, we decided that when our fam­ily was gone we would eat tacos on Thanksgiving. Since his fam­ily remains in KC, we’ve been doing just that for the past three years here at The Little House.

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