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. 🙂
Thank you for the opportunity to win such a fabulous book…Merry Christmas Rhoda!
I love anything So. Living—would love to win a book. Hope your Christmas is special. I so enjoy your blog. Have a blessed 2010.
Rhoda,
Wishing your family a very Merry Christmas. Please enter my name in your book drawing. Thank you
Merry Christmas!!
I adore Southern Living, so please include me in your giveaway
Merry Christmas to you and yours, and to all of my fellow Southern Hospitality Blog fans!!!
Rhoda!
Wishes for a blessed Merry Christmas! Thank you for providing another opportunity for a wonderful giveaway….the book looks like a real treasure!
Holiday Hugs to you!
Georgia
Grandma G’s
grandmagscottage.net
What a wonderful giveaway! I love the Southern Living books and I haven’t seen this years! Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas- have enjoyed your blog!!!
Merry Christmas Rhoda!
Merry Christmas to you, too! I have enjoyed your blog for about a year now. I find following these posts so addictive! I have not purchased one of the Southern Living Christmas Books in years and would love to win one.
Thanks for sharing.
I have never posted a message nor do I blog, BUT I really enjoy reading your blog daily!! My day just doesn’t seem the same if I don’t read what you are up to. Would certainly like to win the Southern Living Christmas 2009 edition. Merry Christmas! Tammy in Tifton, GA
Just a post for the book. Hope you all have a great holiday.
Rhonda, Christmas blessings to you and your family. We are having a small family dinner this evening and then will be with friends on Christmas Day. All the best to you! ~ Sarah
Merry Christmas to you! Thank you for all you share with us!
(And that book looks wonderful.)
Merry Christmas! I love anything by Southern Living!
This looks like a beautiful book! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very, very merry New Year!!
Merry, Merry Christmas … serving the same Savior! Destiny
It’s Christmas Eve and we went looking at lights…not alot out there so I’ve decided that next year we’re gonna do our house up right, maybe inspire our neighbors…Merry Christmas..
Happy Christmas to you and your family. I enjoy reading your blog and gaining a little decorating insight – as I’m otherwise a hit-and-miss “decorator.” Thanks for the offer of the giveaway. I love all Southern Living Books and still find and check out some of the older ones in our library.
Merry Christmas! What a wonderful giveaway! I Love anything by Southern Living.