12 Days of Christmas: Golden Retrievers

These are the greatest dogs.  They remind me of the Golden Retriever I had in High School.  They are cute and hyper when they are puppies but grow up to be such good family pets.  We have friends with one now and the children just lay all over her and use her as a pillow.  She doesn’t mind at all.  If you have a long time wonderful pet like these two it is a great idea to document your time with them just like with children.  They are such special fur-people and really become a big part of the family.  They have their own personalities so it is funny to see how one of these two is so tennis ball crazy and the other…not so much.  🙂

Christmas Ideas:

Buy Cheap-O Christmas Decorations if you have little kids or pets so when they wreck them you won’t feel so bad. Really sad, huh?  Sorry, but I am still in that stage of life my husband calls “we can’t have nice things.”  True.

I bought this lovely ceramic Christmas Tree at Goodwill for maybe $4 (must not have had Grammy with me to get her Senior Discount?).  Don’t judge.  It has fake snow with little light up bulbs that no longer light up and reminds me of the one my grandmother had out every year.  I keep it right on my kitchen table so little fingers run all over it, color on it, break bulbs, smear food on it and as you can see below often decorate it with random things.  The first couple of years that I had it people were constantly informing daily what had “happened” to the tree on my table.  What a relief to not have to care.  For $4 it can be disposable (in my mind).  I have tried to keep the scissors and Sharpies on the top kitchen cabinet for the last 10 years.  I’m glad to at least have a tablescape for one month out of the year (I don’t think I can get away with tablescape can I?).

Merry Christmas!