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. 🙂
Rhoda,
The book looks AWESOME…what a great giveaway! I hope you have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS with your family!
Blessings,
Linda
Thanks for the great giveaway! Merry Christmas!
Hannah
Have a wonderful Christmas with your family.
Thanks for all the tips you have given us this year.
What a great giveaway, I would love to win. Christmas is here for all to thank Jesus for our blessings. Just ignore the blizzard we were going through today. Merry Christmas to you and thanks for the inspiration we get from your blog
stella
Thanks for the opportunity to win the Southern Living book. I love them. Have a Merry Christmas.
The book looks great..Would love to have it.
Merry Christmas
Charlotte
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Looking forward to another year of great ideas and posts from you. Blessings to you and your family.
What a great way to carry the happiness and the look of the Christmas season into 2010. I am sure this is a beautiful book and Such ideas to come out of it.
What a great giveaway! Merry Christmas and many blessings to you and your family!
I would love this book for the recipes!
I too am looking forward to 2010. I have truly been blest and am excited to see what God will do in the lives of me and my family in the year to come. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Merry Christmas Rhonda. I just love the candy table setting. It’s so cute. What a wonderful book and great giveaway.
I look forward to visiting all through 2010.
Hugs…Tracy 🙂
Merry Christmas! And thanks for the chance to win this awesome book! I had surgery 5 weeks ago, then ended up back in the hospital for another week for a bloodclot so needless to say… Christmas has been very different this year at my house. Hopefully I will be able to make up for it next year and a book like this would be very helpful! Thanks again!
Merry Christmas, Rhoda! I always enjoy your blog so much. I’d love to win the Southern Living book. It looks wonderful!
Rhoda–SL is one of my favorite books! And, yours is one of my favorite blogs. Love all the decorating, antiquing, yard sale finds, and recipes you share. Thanks, and hope you and your family have a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year. CJ
Merry Christmas to you, Peter, and Grandma Eleanor (I just love your Eleanor stories)!
Merry Christmas!! What a great looking book!
I stumbled across your site and LOVE the tips I’ve garnered so far. Thank you for the chance to win this fabulous looking book!
Merry Christmas Rhoda!
I would love the book – I hope you and your hubby have a wonderful weekend.
Lisa
Rhoda!
Thanks so much for the chance to win this book! It looks awesome!
Have a Blessed Holiday, Michelle