For last Christmas, we used our big collection of holiday decorations very sparingly. Mom didn’t have much time to dig everything out and set things just right, something she used to spend days upon days getting just right. You know, like HGTV holiday decorating on super steroids. The end of the year felt very much in the vein of “less is more” for decorating for her, and Dad didn’t complain.

After packing everything back away on New Year’s day in less than an hour, opposed to a full day or two that it used to take in the past, she left out a plain, gold-sprayed grapevine ball, because she liked it. Someone(s) else liked it, too, apparently.

And after reminding Pia not to eat the grapevine décor prop, Viola promptly nibbled on it and batted it around the room, which in turn prompted Mom to decide she didn’t need to have that thing out after all.

Thanks, girls, for “helping” Mom decide the room needed one less thing sitting around.

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Here’s a few more photos of our snow weekend. The snow was pretty, and plentiful. It was the ice that came after that made things scary. Mom couldn’t get to work after all, couldn’t get down the driveway without sliding, and hey, gee, isn’t that the community mailbox* across the street coming up fast in her rearview mirror while sliding? Whoa! Nope, Mom agrees that attempting to drive in ice isn’t what cool kids should be doing.

She did make it in to work yesterday and nearly got stuck in the deep snow/slush in her carpool person’s neighborhood on the way in. Slipping and sliding is fun sometimes, but not yesterday morning!

*No community mailbox was injured during Mom’s attempted excursion down the driveway. She left that for one of the neighbor’s kids to accomplish!

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2020 – MultiCat Monday
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – Friday Fun
2016 – Welcome Itty!
2015 – Ruby Tuesday
2014 – MultiCat Monday
2013 – No post
2012 – Some Habits are Hard to Break