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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her work, the two …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Christmas Home Tour

Will you share a photo of your home at Christmas?

During the Christmas season, it is a wonderful blessing to visit the family and friends and see their homes all decorated for Christmas.

Over at CatholicMom.com, I’ve decided to hold a little Christmas Open House and welcome you into our humble abode.

I’m no Martha Stewart, but it’s fun to lay out the decorations we’ve accumulated over the years and see our home warmly lit with candles and twinkling lights.  If you note the photo above, you’ll see that a random guitar manages to make its way into every photo - instruments have taken the place of trucks and lost Legos in my home’s decor, but they still signify that a “real family” lives in this home! 

Would you like to share a bit of your home, all dressed up for the holidays?  How about a peek at your adorable family, all dressed up for Christmas Mass?  Please use the form below to share a link to your personal Christmas pictures of any kind and we’ll all pop in for a little visit. No need to do dishes or pick up dirty laundry.  We promise to bring a tray of cookies when we stop by!


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I love this idea, Lisa! I’ve added mine.

 

Great idea~I only have a glimpse of our tree trimming decor~as we did a silver theme~that’s all the pics have uploaded…I need to do that!

 

In the background of the pictures you will see the plywood Christmas Tree Corner shelves my husband built for me. Allergies have forced us to abandon fresh trees.

 

Danielle - I can’t believe how tall you tree is!!  Loved your photos - thanks so much for sharing them.  May, I didn’t see any photos on your post - am I looking at the correct link?  It’s so fun to take a peek at the homes of our online friends!

 

this was a great idea ladies. thanks for the invite. danielle, that tree is so beautiful. i bet your house smells DELICIOUS! nothing beats the smell of a fresh cut tree. my mom has this “tree” spray she uses and it just isn’t quite the same!=)

 

I love fresh cut trees, I can’t have a fake one in my house!  Thanks for the invite! smile

 

Michelle, love it!  But that kitchen is far too clean - no fair!!  Thanks for opening your lovely home.  Lisa

 

so far everyone has such beautiful and elegant homes…...

 

Everyone has such lovely trees and decorations~very, very festive!  I’ve enjoyed viewing them and touring their home.

 

Enjoying the blog entries, I don’t write a blog, but I do have some Flickr photos of the Jesse tree & Advent calendars that we have this year. Click on website by my name…

 

I added yours to the links above saganaga—beautiful!

 

I linked to a picture of our…unconventional Christmas tree. It’s our first Christmas spent away from either set of parents and inlaws, just us, and we tried to make it special, although our place is rather small. It should make a fun contrast to all of your lovely decorations, ladies!

 

Fun idea. So here’s mine: Twitpic photo: Front door *holly* Merry Christmas. (I’m a Twitter microblogger…) Peace!

 

This years trip from Nebraska to my MIL’s cabin seemed to take forever,  first a snow day which delayed our departure for my son’s high school finals, then a flat tire in St. Louis which made us spend the night so we could buy a new tire in the morning, then freezing rain caused us to spend the night in Kentucky. Finally we made it to the cabin on Christmas Eve and decorated a little tree. We were SO happy to finally make it!

 

I just love this idea, and have enjoyed my peeks into everyone’s homes!!  I need to go back and give some comments now that I have more time. I finally jumped on the bandwagon myself tonight. I may post more photos on my blog in the next few days.  Isn’t it fun taking photos of those little things in our homes that put the happy in your heart?  Christmas stuff or otherwise, these are the things that make a house a home.  And our family of course. : )
Glad to be part of this.

 

I added my link (#24)!  Thanks for hosting this!  I wanted to participate in some other Christmas home tours but never got around to it.  Now that it’s *really* the Christmas season and it’s being hosted on one of my favorite blogs, I’m so glad to be a part of it!  Merry Christmas!

 

Thank you so much for hosting this lovely tour of homes!  I just posted mine…I’ll have to go grab a cup of coffee and come back for a nice long “visit” with all you lovely ladies!

 

I just entered.  I already posted a tour last week, hope it’s ok to enter!  Thank y ou for hosting!

 

Love this idea…we are still posting about our Advent in our home…just couldn’t find time to blog and manage all of our celebrations!!!
+JMJ+

 

Me again…thanks for the inspiration to post the rest of my Advent and Christmas pictures…we are still trying to celebrate till Ephipany, maybe even till Candlemas Day!!!

 

Loved looking at all of your homes and reading about all of your different Christmas traditions.  Thank you all for sharing and Lisa, for thinking up such a great idea for a blog post!

 

I’m having too much fun with this. It’s felt like a new assignment from my art school days. I always loved new assignments.  So I did a ‘round 2’ around my house, camera in hand, just for the fun of it all. Drop over and see if you’d like!  And feel free to omment and subscribe to our blog!

 

This was so much fun!  I finally have my post done and up at my blog… I can’t wait to check out all the other links!  Happy New Year!

 

a well planned house is always a success plan and a dream house. i just love my rooms to be filled with peace with green sceneries and beautiful words of God.

 

Your idea is too good and tree is so Delicious and beautiful Thanks for invite in your new Christmas Open House.

 

Have a great craft idea? Want to share your favorite cleaning products? Have a super recipe to share? Want to ask a question or share a strategy for meal planning, family schedules, laundry techniques, or any other household dilemma? This is the place to do it…

 

always a success plan and a dream house. i just love my rooms to be filled with peace with green sceneries and beautiful

 

I need to go back and give some comments now that I have more time. I finally jumped on the bandwagon myself tonight.

 

Thank you, you have given me some great ideas for staging a home during the holidays! Once I have some pictures of the season I will gladly share them.


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