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. 🙂
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!