Maybe it should be “ha ha ha” because when I said I’d be back in October, I didn’t mean mid-December on a crash course to Christmas. Ah well. The best laid plans…
But hey, look what snowed in for Advent this year – Meet my newest grandchild, my eldest daughter’s 4th child, a little girl called Joline who joined her big brothers and sister recently! She made them all wait a week for her, which was almost unbearably exciting and now they’re all thrilled, too cute. There are several family birthdays around now and she just waited to get one of her own… As usual and like her siblings, she was home from the hospital within a few hours and the next thing I heard, she was off to the Christmas market to celebrate being a day old lol! Go, Joline! Correct assumption: mother and baby are doing well 🙂
I love that Christmas in Switzerland is so tasteful in its decorations. It’s not considered a humourous time of year and lights are rarely coloured, with more emphasis on decorations made of natural materials and traditional colours. This is a local flower shop.
On a grey, rainy Saturday in mid-November, volunteers hung the town’s Christmas lights – these are the ones along our road… In town, a few streets along, it’s so pretty at the main station
and there are some pretty projections, too, on some of the nicest buildings It’s all very pretty indeed and worth taking a walk through town after dark or visiting the Christmas market or even just stopping for a mug of Glühwein (mulled wine) and/or some roast chestnuts… and then coming home again!
Nothing can compare to a Germanic Advent. Welcome, Joline!
Nice, isn’t it?!
A lovely cosy post Mel! Glad that mother and baby are doing well and granny’s knitting needles are no doubt moving at the speed of light at the moment!!
Have you installed a spy camera here??!! 😉
What a beautiful Christmas present Joline is! Glad baby and mother are doing so well.
I love your simpler displays for Christmas compared to our more garish ones. The light projections would be a welcome replacement here to those blow up monstrosities filling so many front yards. No lights here at my house just some simple touches of red here and there to liven the rooms up.
Lovely, Lois – always a touch of red around here 🙂
oh, congratulations on your precious new grandbaby! SO sweet! And The holiday decorations are beautiful, I love how simple but beautiful they all are.
Thankyou! Yes, more deco
coming up… 🙂
Congratulations on your new grandchild. Best present ever!
Thankyou Freda! She was a delight to us all this Christmas, along with her siblings 😉