I wish you all a very Merry Christmas from our house to yours. We are not traveling this year, but staying home and 2 of Peter’s three younguns (all 20-somethings) are visiting for a couple days. I’m cooking a big meal on Christmas Day and we will celebrate the season with the kids and Peter’s mom and Grandma Eleanor. It’s sure to be a memorable day!
I’ll be seeing my family in a couple of weeks over in Atlanta, since we just enjoyed a very fun few days with them for Thanksgiving. It will be nice to just relax for the weekend and not have to be anywhere, but stay home and enjoy our cozy home for the Holidays, with the Christmas lights on and maybe watching some old movies.
I hope you all have a peaceful Christmas and revel in the beauty this time of year holds. Jesus is truly the reason for the season and may we all remember that.
One of my very sweet readers and a Southern Living at Home consultant, Patti, sent me my very own copy of Christmas with Southern Living 2009 and she sent an extra copy for me to give away to ONE of YOU! Isn’t that exciting?! 
From Entertaining, to Recipes, Decorating and Gift-giving ideas, the book covers it all. You know that if Southern Living writes a book, it will be a beautiful book and it certainly is that. 
The pictures are fabulous, as are the recipes and decorating ideas. 
This will be a book you will definitely want to add to your collection and pull out each Christmas for years to come.
All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on this post! I’ll leave the contest open all weekend through Monday and announce a winner on Tuesday.
Have a great Christmas weekend, my friends! I want to take the opportunity to thank ALL of you for being such great readers this last year and for your support of my blog. It means the world to me! Ya’ll make blogging so much fun and I am rewarded daily from the friendships I’ve made in the blogworld.
THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart! 
I am looking forward to a very fun 2010 with all of you.
If you’re online this weekend and want to look at more Christmas inspiration, I’ve updated my Tumblr (click here and there’s always a link on my sidebar too ——>) file and added a lot of eye candy that I saw from the Home for the Holidays tour and around blogland in general. I was having problems adding things on there for awhile, but now I’ve got it going again, so you’ll want to check in from time to time. There are some beautiful pics out there from everyone! I’ll add more as I get time. I tried so hard to get around to all 300+ of you and I still haven’t made it.
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Merry Christmas Wonderful Rhoda!!! Thank you for all your hard work!!!
I have collected Christmas with Southern Living since the 1980s. I love this book!
I have a couple “Christmas with Southern” Living books and love them too. Please enter me in your giveaway.
Hi Rhoda, Your post Christmas plans sound good to me! Time to slow down a little and recoup. Love Southern Living!
Rhoda, Merry Christmas to you. Isn’t it nice to be home for Christmas and have the family come to you! I would love to win that book. Southern Living always does a great job.
Linda
I love Southern Living – great travel ideas, decorating hints and recipes!
Merry Chirstmas Rhoda. I love to read your posts….you don’t know this, but we have coffee together every morning!
The book looks fabulous.
merry christmas and happy new year!!
I’ve been wanting to start collecting these for so long. I love to look thru my friends every time I’m at her house.
Merry Christmas!
Looks like the Southern Living book is a good combination of classy and whimsy! Trust you had a joy-filled CHRISTmas!
I enjoy reading the Southern Living magazines.
This new Christmas book looks like it has alot of inspirational ideas I would love to win a copy.
Cheryl
Hope you and your family had a wonderful, blessed Christmas! A dear friend recommended me to your blog and it is wonderful! I’m lovin’ it!
Merry Christmas! I love all of Southern Living’s ideas and would be so happy to have this book tucked away to inspire next year’s decorating ideas. Thank you for entering me in your giveaway!
Enjoy your blog so much! Would love to win the book! thanks
I LOVE Southern Living & would love to win the book. I love reading your blog!
Merry Christmas to you Rhoda and all those you love. Your Christmas sounds perfect. Again, I must tell you how I love your blog.
Merry Christmas. I have several of those books from years past, but not this past year. Would love to add it to my collection.
Merry Christmas Rhoda. Love you blog! Would love to win the Southern Living book.
Happy Holidays…thank you so much for all the inspiration this year. I look forward to more next year! (the Southern Living books are Amazing…half of our Christmas yummies were right out of 2004! I would LOVE to add this one to my two….)
Fabulous christmnas decorations! I really love the green stockings. I always wanted to push the Christmas theme beyond redness, but haven’t had the guts to do so yet. Definitely inspired by looking at your stockings!
Very nice post! Merry Christmas.
Hi Rhoda,
Thanks for all of the great holiday posts. I would love to add the 2009 edition to my Southern Living collection. They make great coffee table books to put out during the holiday season!!!
Happy Holdiays
Merry Christmas! Would love a copy. Thanks!
Merry Christmas Rhoda! Have a blessed holiday!
Thanks for providing entertainment and inspiration with your blog Rhoda. Can’t wait to visit in 2010.
Victoria
I pray you have a beautiful Christmas, Rhoda. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home and decorating ideas with us. It’s really helped me see that I don’t need to spend a lot to create a beautiful ambiance in my home. I’m very thankful for those ideas these days since losing my job. Hope to see more wonderful ideas from you in the new year.
Hope you have a blessed Christmas season. The book looks so beautiful!
Rhoda…love your blog! Thanks for the chance to win…Southern Living is my favorite. Thanks! Maureen
Rhoda,
I would love to win the book. But, may I ask (another) favor? Around this time of year I get in the organizing mode. I need to go with it while it’s here!!
One of my questions to you who seems so organized is, do you pack up ALL of your Christmas stuff, where do you store it, and do you keep things like vases, flowers, urns, etc. out to use during other times of the year? And if so, where in the heck do you store all of those? I know you are so good about getting back to your readers, which is why you are at the top of my list, so I truly appreciate any reply.
Happy Holidays
A Southern Living book would be perfect for this ‘northern’ girl … Hope you had a great Christmas with your family Rhoda.
Merry Christmas! What a lovely book.
Love Southern Living, thanks for the giveaway!! Merry Christmas;)
Rhoda, You are my inspiration ! You have such wonderful ideas. Have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year. I would love to win the Southern Living Book.
Rhoda, I’ve enjoyed your blog so much. Southern Living is not only the way we live, but also is reflected in our home. Please, keep sharing all the good ideas with us. Thanks!
I don’t seem to have the time I need to blog, or maybe I don’t have all the “tech” knowledge that I need to know to blog! But I sure do enjoy logging on each night after work and looking at your wonderful and informational blog.
Have a Blessed New Year!
Rhoda, I made the post-Christmas sales today (9 hours of shopping to be exact) and want you to know I bought a few things specifically so I could be prepared next year to make a mailbox swag much like you made. Thanks for the great idea. Can’t wait to try it.
I really enjoy visiting your blog, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Rhoda! I hope I win!
oh my goddness- I meant to leave a comment earlier and then forgot- whew! so glad I got in before you closed it. I would LOVE to have that book. I have 2 already and they are my go to during my tea time
Merry Christmas Rhonda- thank you for all your inspiration through out the year!@
blessings
mary
What a nice book. I am promising myself right now to allow enough advance time to prepare and decorate next year!!! It sounds like you enjoyed a nice, relaxing time with family. Perfect. Happy New Year!
What a fun giveaway! Christmas is such a great time for a giveaway! I am doing a blog makeover giveaway all week long – so anyone is welcome to come leave a comment for a chance to win!
Love your blog, it’s so much fun to read, and I wish I could decorate like you! I promise I would read the book cover to cover if I win. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Your Christmas blog made me feel as if I were there. Fun to hear how other familys celebrate the holiday. We, on the opposite side of the US enjoyed the same potato casserole that you made. I would love to have the book to enjoy. Happy New Year to you and your family.
Rhoda,
Hope you had a Merry Christmas and enjoyed!
Please put me in for the Southern Living book giveaway!
Thanks!
Love Southern Living and love your site! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Rhoda I hope your Christmas was wonderful! What a nice giveaway. Please include me! Thank you. ♥
Oh my! I would LOVE that book. Please include me ~ I’d really appreciate it!
I’m glad you had a wonderful Christmas ~ an early Happy New Year to you and your loved ones.
Rhoda,
Happy Holidays!! Your site is an inspiration and makes me wish I lived close to your shopping area so I too could shop where you shop! Please include me in the SL give away! Thank you.
Love your blogs. Would love to win the Southern Living 20009 book. Happy New Year!
What a great book!! I would love this in my collection!!
Ah! Beautiful blogging! Love your moss wreaths and table decor. Your food looked divine too:) The 2009 SL book looks wonderful! So many great ideas….love those bells on the wreath, and the whimisical elves head first in the candy dish. First time seeing your blog, love it!!!!!!
What a great book…..please add my name to the hat….thanks love your blog…Pat H
pattygary@kc.rr.com
Loved checking in on your Christmas decorations. They’ve been a feast for the eyes! I would love to add this book to my collection!
Rhoda, I love your blog and visit it often. I would love to win the book so please enter me in the drawing. Blessings to you and yours!!
Thank you for a wonderful year of inspiration. Winning the book would be fabulous, but the biggest thanks goes to you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I would love to win this book!! I have loved seeing all of your decorations during this holiday season, everything has been beautiful. Thanks for all the inspiration! Happy New Year to you and yours.
Merry Christmas Rhoda! I planned on being back home (Enterprise) for the holidays but I just broke my leg so we’re staying here in NJ this year.
Hugs,
Donna
Wow! You sure know how to deck the halls!!! Please enter me in the book give away. I surely need some inspiration for the new year. Bless you and love your blog.
Vicki
I really enjoy your blog! Merry Christmas!
Looks like a great book! I have the cookbook that you blogged about in your Christmas update. I think I might have picked it up at a yardsale, but it’s neat to know you have a connection to it. It does have some great recipes! I love those church cookbooks and grab them when I see them.
Hi Rhoda! Looks like a wonderful book. I would love to win it. Please enter me in your giveaway. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!
Wow – great giveaway! This book would really help me get it together to decorate my new (old) home next Christmas.
I love Southern Living and the book looks so fabulous!
I’d love some new inspiration for next year’s Christmas.
Southern Living Books are my favorite – and I didn’t feel like I could get one this year, so I was thrilled with your giveaway!
What a great book! I love all things Christmas, both cooking and decorating.
Love everything about Christmas! Awesome book!
Southern Living is the best and I would love to have a copy of this book:) Pick me, Pick me!!
Oh my gosh I love the whole thing you have done for the table… Pretty plates… IS Southern Living where you come up with some of these ideas?? If it is, I really need that book. Please put my name in the hat. SANDI.
Love that book! What a cute giveaway!
I just love looking through books myself, over and over and over…you get the picture. Please include me in the drawing. Blessings, Debbie
Love southern living!! These are great pics. Glad to hear you had a fabulous Christmas!
Thanks for all your great holiday posts this year, Rhoda! I wasn’t quite ready for it all myself and hope to do much better next year. Thanks also for the opportinuity to win a fun book. Fingers crossed… Tracy
I love the Southern Living Christmas Books. I have some really old ones that I go back to every year!!! Thank you for the great giveaway!
I would love a copy of Southern Living. Thanks for all the how to’s on your blog.
Happy New Year!
Connie
Oh I would love to win that!!
i would love to win this!!
Please! enter me, Rhoda. I love these books, but being back in school, I have been unable to afford them the last couple of years. =)
I would so love to have this ‘09 version! I have the ‘03 book and use it every Christmas season for decorating inspiration and all the delicious recipes!
I would love to add this to my collection. Count me in
Happy holidays, Rhoda!! I’ve loved spending time with you (well, your blog!) this year. Hoping you make it to the Big Apple in 2010.
And I’m hooked on Southern Living now. I mentioned buying my first copy this fall and I think a subscription may be in my world in the new year. Love it!
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