Episode 12: All Things Christmas! Decor, Traditions, Gifts

This is our final episode for season one, we’re talking about all things Christmas - how we decorate, our favorite family traditions, and what’s on our Christmas lists (hint, hint!) We’re answering some listener questions, and as always, ending with some things we’re loving lately.

Highs and Lows

Kimmy: continued basement flooding issues plus slow recovery, friendship hutch

Bre: broken oven, new hutch

Emily: Didn’t like my old Christmas decor, bought some new Christmas decor!

Discussion: Christmas Decorating and Favorite Traditions

Emily:

Real Christmas tree
Kids’ Christmas tree that they decorate themselves
Matching Christmas family pajamas
Stockings at home, at my In-Laws, and at my in-laws’ extended family
Christmas eve morning cinnamon rolls and presents with Brian’s family
Pranking my little sister

Breanna:

Decorating my house early, with Evan
Pile of presents, organizing them according to peoples names
Buy gifts, open other peoples
Being in our own house Christmas morning

Kimmy:

Christmas Fam photo and send cards out!
Christmas Tree on Black Friday- use to be real but traumatizing spider experience changed that!
Advent - devotional/family worship and small gift every day
Wrapping gifts while watching Christmas movies
Christmas Eve Service and open one gift
Christmas morning stockings then our family gifts in our family pjs
Christmas Day brunch at my parents
Exchange homemade gifts
Christmas night - holiday light trail with dad

Our Christmas Wish Lists: Home Decor

Kimmy:

New living room rug!
Dinnerware
Serverware
Pitcher
Dutch Oven
Sauce pan
Good kitchen knife
Glass meal prep storage containers
Cloth napkins and tablecloth
Batch Cookbook
Amber glass hand and dish soap dispensers
Coffee table books - Down to Earth

Emily:

Books: “Declutter like a Mother” by Ali Cazzaza and “Minimalista” by Shira Gill
Coffee table
Accent chair
Trays - small white one and a round wood one for the dining room table
Bedspread for guest room

Bre:

Floor Lamp
End table
Dutch oven
Throw blankets
Pillows
Electric lighter
Nice measuring cups
Plant pots
Cake plate with cloche

Listener Questions

Becca asks if it’s okay to hang curtains all the way to the floor when you have baseboard heating.
Elissa asks: “What throw blanket should I get to go with this bedspread?”
A friend of Emily’s in Arizona asks: “What should I do with a large hutch my in-laws gave me that’s not my style? They live next door.”

Pillow Talk:

Emily: My amazon cedar garland

Bre: OXO storage containers

Kimmy: Carleigh Courey Design Calendar