Holiday Craziness


I was browsing the magazine racks at Barnes and Noble the other day looking at the Christmas issues and just wishing I could decorate my house like some of these, but then I thought maybe not. The houses decorated in the magazines are staged to look good. No kids or pets running around. Not real. Seriously, if someone tried to keep their houses clean and untouched like these houses it would drive them crazy (or make the families very unhappy with them.) And I admit that I was one of these people a long time ago. But then I couldn't enjoy the holidays. I think no one could. Too busy trying to be House Beautiful worthy. Homes are meant to be lived in and show it. Children running around. Pets running around. Smells of dinner cooking. Loud and wonderful. That's life. Not those pictures in a magazine.

 

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