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. 🙂
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