Navigating the Holidays: Christmas Decor & Family Tradition - WMOTH | XO, MACENNA EP. 23

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  • Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
  • In this festive episode, come along with me as we unwrap the ups and downs of the holiday season. We'll dive into the quest for that ideal festive vibe, balancing the excitement with the reality of creating perfect decor moments. Let's share our cherished family traditions, painting a picture of joy and inspiration to help everyone catch the holiday spirit and unwind from the seasonal stress. Join the conversation, and let's make this season merry and bright together!
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  • @liamdanaher2054
    @liamdanaher2054 8 месяцев назад +15

    In my personal opinion, if you were to ever have a kid or kids, the best Christmas Eve movie to watch is the polar express! The story of the Polar express is like a kids dream. It is the most magical, true Christmas movie I feel like it’s the best movie to get a kid excited for Christmas.

    • @LindaKayHolevas
      @LindaKayHolevas 8 месяцев назад +1

      I agree!! 😊

    • @foxymama9203
      @foxymama9203 8 месяцев назад +3

      We have watched it every year with our son! He is now almost 21 and we still do! I can’t wait until I can watch it with grandchildren someday!

    • @CourtneyBishopPOA
      @CourtneyBishopPOA 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yessss! I so adore the magic of that movie ✨️🥰🙏🏻

    • @MicheleWalkerWebb
      @MicheleWalkerWebb 8 месяцев назад +1

      A Christmas Story is classic. Funny. We add in Home Alone, again for the laughs. The original with Boris Karloff, How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- watch til the end!! Always Polar Express. The love and spirit of Christmas.

  • @WendySThomson
    @WendySThomson 8 месяцев назад +1

    Years ago when my husband and I were in our first house we started a tradition of picking out one expensive thing for the house at Christmas instead of buying each other gifts. It made Christmas so much easier and we always loved our gift!

  • @JamiRayVintage
    @JamiRayVintage 8 месяцев назад

    We light a candle in our handmade advent, we read a scripture and then sing a song December 1st all the way to the 24th

  • @LindaKayHolevas
    @LindaKayHolevas 8 месяцев назад +8

    I have different traditions with my grandchildren. I have an 8 year old grandson, who I see multiple times each week because he lives close to me. He is on the autism spectrum and loves Legos. We started a tradition when he was 3 years old to build a holiday Lego every year (he’s insanely good at building Legos!). It’s been fun to get out the Legos every season (they are put away very carefully!) & watch his joy in seeing them again. He gets so excited to add to the collection! He also builds a Lego ornament for the tree. I also have grandchildren I only see 4x per year because they live in San Diego (I’m in Ptld, OR). They are 5 & 7 & we’ve started a tradition of them making an ornament for each other. A lot of thought & time goes into each ornament & it’s heartwarming to see how excited they are to give their ornament to each other. I also have given a customized ornament to each of my grandchildren each year & have since they were born. Each one represents what they are enjoying that particular year, & my hope is that they will have 18 ornaments when they move out on their own (or 19 or however many:), & will enjoy unwrapping them & having the memories associated with them each year. This was a great podcast, MaCenna. Thank you for the inspiration you give every month of the year. ❤

  • @jennifergraham3752
    @jennifergraham3752 8 месяцев назад +12

    We are Canadian so every year we listen to stories written by Stuart Maclean. They were originally on CBC radio I would say in the 90’s and you can still find them online. They are hilarious and charming. If you are going to listen to one, I would recommend “Dave Cooks The Turkey”. This has been a fun podcast. It makes me think of all the different traditions that we have in our family.

    • @colleenmasse9368
      @colleenmasse9368 8 месяцев назад +3

      Loved listening to him. Miss his voice.

    • @jennifergraham3752
      @jennifergraham3752 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@colleenmasse9368 he is a national treasure for sure! I am so sad that I never saw him in person. I just finished listening to Dave Cooks the Turkey and Christmas at the Turlingtons. 🤣🤣🤣. I need to find the one about the Christmas concert now.

  • @gabl3400
    @gabl3400 8 месяцев назад

    Hot cider allllll the way!! Crown Mulling Spices mixed with apple juice is THE BEST way to make cider-I am convinced.

  • @marthapoole9150
    @marthapoole9150 8 месяцев назад

    My family has several traditions around Christmas. We always put our 1st tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving. My husband builds a fire (if it’s cold enough), we put on Christmas pjs, make hot chocolate and cookies & decorate the tree with all the ornaments from their childhood and travel. Closer to Christmas, we pick an evening to drive around town to look at lights. Our small town has a beautiful light display in the historic district. Christmas Eve we open one gift(new Christmas pjs) and watch It’s A Wonderful Life. Christmas morning is cinnamon rolls while opening gifts and A Christmas Story playing on the tv. My girls are 20 & 24, now!

  • @angel.mm10
    @angel.mm10 8 месяцев назад +1

    My fiancé and I started a tradition last year of cutting a slice of the trunk from the bottom of our real tree after Christmas and engraving the year and using it as an ornament for the next year. I’ve been big on trying to start traditions since having my son!

    • @angel.mm10
      @angel.mm10 8 месяцев назад

      We also have an entire neighborhood that goes all out with Christmas decorations and the community actually votes on who wins. It’s a HUGE thing that happens every year and we love going

  • @wts7273
    @wts7273 8 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you for reminding me to focus on the positives … I usually really enjoy Christmas but due to family stuff and health stuff I’m not really into it this year for the first time in my life. I needed this reminder today…

  • @hedgehog32398
    @hedgehog32398 8 месяцев назад

    When I was very young, I was scared to death if the grinch. Long story short, my dad helped me get over that fear with a late night show down that ended with delivering said grinch to my grandmothers house to end the haunting once and for all. 😂This led to a tradition of my father gifting me the annual Lenox grinch ornament-I grew quite the collection over about two decades. He has since passed, but the ornaments remain one of my prized possessions and remind me of him-especially at Christmas.

  • @Premchik
    @Premchik 8 месяцев назад +6

    Macenna!!! Thank you for throwing my way so much wonderful content! I cannot even say how much you guys, RUclipsrs, enrich the lives and souls of us, watchers.

  • @robertkrismeyer5783
    @robertkrismeyer5783 8 месяцев назад

    Growing up and then with my own children we always opened our stockings before breakfast and after breakfast we opened one gift at a time starting with the youngest to the oldest. Sometimes opening gifts lasted into the middle of the afternoon.

  • @nata3467
    @nata3467 8 месяцев назад

    I have three 3-4 ft. Trees....one is all shiny bright antique,one vintage colored solids on flocked tree and one handmade, child made family memories....the whole house glows at night

  • @lanakelley2893
    @lanakelley2893 8 месяцев назад

    Traditions: Christmas Cookies baking & decorating (have a few favorites I always make plus we try a new 1 every year). Make a Gingerbread House (want to do the contest - great idea). Going out to cut a tree on our property. Nutcracker collection on our mantel. Lots of decorating - inside & out. Lots of lights inside & out. Going to look at lights. Go to Nutcracker Ballet. Go to a Hockey Game. Christmas Eve with my huge family - Pot Luck Meal, Dirty Santa gift exchange, lots of games, family pictures in the same ugly sweaters we were every year, candlelight church service & Christmas caroling. We make Italian food for Christmas dinner.
    If you like hot apple cider you've got to try Wassail. My favorite!

  • @toshabarrett1617
    @toshabarrett1617 8 месяцев назад

    I buy my kids Christmas pajama every year along with the dog and have them take pictures in front of the tree every year.

  • @jenniferkessener1111
    @jenniferkessener1111 7 месяцев назад

    You have a perfect start with tradition when you celebrate with your families. My family was always on Christmas eve, our time with the kids was christmas morning, and my husbands family was Christmas day and night...we always stayed over night with the cousins. We were just discussing the recipes that were my grandmothers, then my moms, and now I make them. So good to learn your mom's recipes. We always had a favorite coffee cake, with eggs, bacon, and orange juice after stockings.
    There is a candy Cane lane in El Segundo ( should be closer to you). Small streets that dead end, so people just park and walk, which is more fun.
    We get a real tree from a small buisinsss, so fresh! The heavier the tree the fresher. We would go to a local nursery, Roger's garden in Newport ( they had a garden train and ornaments, plants, decor)and then to Fashion Island to shop, and eat lunch. With kids, strollers, shopping, eating, 3 generations it was fun. Boat parades are fun too.
    We.always celebrated advent with the old fashion advent calenders with picures of toys, and the boys loved guessing what was behind each window. We also celebrated advent with advent wreathes,nativity sets, prayers, and time going to services.
    Love fun Christmas movies. It is a great suprise to wait to put out presents for children after they go to bed. My mom would have some presents for relatives under the tree, but all ours appeared Christmas morning and it was so magical. We always did this with our boys.

  • @jenfrowe
    @jenfrowe 8 месяцев назад +2

    You should have a tree that is dedicated to the homemade ornaments...like the one in your informal living/family room. That way you can have your tailored tree in the formal living room and still can display the homemade ornaments (esp. once you have children) in another location. It's the best of both worlds.

  • @pamp3158
    @pamp3158 8 месяцев назад

    When I was in high school, in the 70s, my Mom & I painted wooden christmas ornaments from a kit. They were 3D and very detailed. I still put those ornaments on my tree every year. They are treasures!

  • @GodessSiri
    @GodessSiri 8 месяцев назад +1

    I make an advent calendar with liqueur chocolates for me and my mother and we have a boozy chocolate and watch out favorite RUclipsr's vlogmas videos. I have 2 trees, my aesthetic tree and my tacky tree, I add a couple of new ornaments to each every year. I live in New Zealand and we HAVE to have Pavlova for desert on Christmas day - in NZ it's not Christmas day without Pav. I make Nana's shortbread for all my cousin's - she's been gone 20 years now and it's nice for everyone to eat cookies that taste just like she baked.

  • @sandraevans5540
    @sandraevans5540 8 месяцев назад +1

    A great new Christmas Hallmark movie for you & your mom could be …”A Biltmore Christmas”… it’s really good! 🎄

  • @samanthaw1419
    @samanthaw1419 8 месяцев назад

    A tradition I acquired from the first boyfriends family. A bowl of hard boiled eggs, every one has to take a turn to select an egg and crack it on their forehead. Two of eggs will be raw. It's a great fun game. 😂

  • @ruthmccormick1328
    @ruthmccormick1328 8 месяцев назад

    THANK YOU AND LOVE YA

  • @elecbarberella
    @elecbarberella 8 месяцев назад

    When I was little my mom would say we could open one gift on Christmas Eve. We’d go around the room and open our one gift. When we were done, my grandma (my dad’s mom who lived with us) would always say “That was fun! Shall we do another?” My brother and I would cheer and my mom would gnash her teeth because she could say no after grandma suggested it. After each round, grandma would say it again… and again until there wasn’t anything left. LOL. Santa gifts would of course show up the next morning.

  • @clarae0898
    @clarae0898 8 месяцев назад

    I’m fortunate to have many happy family traditions for the holidays.
    We open Christmas jammies on 12/24 and read Christmas books. Me being the youngest, I got to ring a bell as we read the polar express. Although we’re all grown, we still enjoy the tradition together when we can.

  • @margaritadiaz3779
    @margaritadiaz3779 8 месяцев назад

    McCenna, you are such a wonderful human being. Your honesty and simplicity make your channel such a joy to watch. I love that you will be able to enjoy both of your homes this holiday season, and memories will be created. I wish you the best of holidays surrounded by family and friends.❤❤❤❤

  • @lizajane1007
    @lizajane1007 8 месяцев назад

    Great podcast! I am not Christian (Buddhist), and i come from a very disfunctional family (we no longer live near each other), so the 25th is a me day! I stay home by myself and eat my favorite foods for dinner, watch a few hallmark movies and/or listen to a British mystery audiobook, eat homemade pumpkin custard with cool whip on top, and have hot apple cider (local brands here in Michigan are the best). If I known someone is alone (and has trouble being alone) I will invite them over to join me. So I am definitely team hot Apple Cider 🍎

  • @daynadouglas7545
    @daynadouglas7545 8 месяцев назад

    I was listening to thia at work today, multi-tasking😅
    Anyway....Our family tradition is serious baking the night before....ham, cakes, bread, etc.
    On Christmas Day, we cook all the other dishes (macaroni pie, corn pie, lasagne, Christmas rice, pigein peas, baked chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, fish)....we over-do it on the food for sure. Then exchange gifts at mom's house...🎉🎉❤

  • @colleenmasse9368
    @colleenmasse9368 8 месяцев назад

    When we were young. A group of us..like 15 or so would go to the senior homes & sing Christmas carols

  • @nomadine85
    @nomadine85 8 месяцев назад +1

    Ohh I just had an idea for the embroidered jumpers, instead of getting a new one each year, you should add a patch of embroidery each year so over the years the jumpers become fuller and fuller

  • @suelange4674
    @suelange4674 8 месяцев назад

    You probably need to find aceramic shop where you can find holiday greenware or fired bisque pieces. I used to do painting with all the details and would paint on bisque. We have a tradition of finding the pickle ornament on the tree. I also have a little tiny elf ( like 1 1/2 inches tall) that I hide somewhere in my living room or dining room. My Grandchildren love hunting for the pickle and Pixie, the elf and I have little prizes for everyone.....lifesaver books and other candy treats.
    I saw a video of a street in Toronto where every single home had an inflatable Santa standing in the front yard....it was a really long street too! It is always so much fun at Christmas!!

  • @vanessaraew
    @vanessaraew 8 месяцев назад

    omg an updated vlog style house tour of the cottage please!!

  • @kay43793
    @kay43793 8 месяцев назад +1

    I am obsessed with your podcast. I listen and if not I will watch the video.. so a Christmas episode.... OBSESSED!

  • @michellegreen792
    @michellegreen792 8 месяцев назад

    I also live in California. From as long as I can remember we had tamales , beans and rice for Chiristmas Eve dinner. Then we would listen on the radio to The Cinnamon Bear. It was so much fun. Of course this was in the late 50's. After that
    t we all opened one
    present.
    Whichever family member had the youngest children would host breakfast so we all could watch them open their presents. Cinnamon toast and cocoa for present opening. Later pancakes, sausage and eggs. BTW The Cinnamon Bear can still be found on You Tube.❤

  • @user-qr9rj8bg7b
    @user-qr9rj8bg7b 8 месяцев назад

    When step kids were young and my nieces and nephews every Christmas Eve late I would take men’s hiking boots and sprinkle flour by the fireplace and make footprints

  • @user-tp4lz1lq1b
    @user-tp4lz1lq1b 8 месяцев назад +2

    I'm a hot apple cider girl. So excited for vlogmas this year.

  • @sueshe3292
    @sueshe3292 8 месяцев назад

    My Grandma made the best crispy sugar cookies and was well known throughout the community for them. I started making them before she passed a few years ago and they are now one of my traditions. Also, cookie decorating with our kids and granddaughters. Christmas Eve is always spent with our kids and granddaughters, I always make Ham and Corn Chowder and we play games and open gifts. Just love this time of year. ❤

  • @gailchurch194
    @gailchurch194 8 месяцев назад +2

    Just Google unpainted ceramic bisque village houses. You will find a lot.

  • @joannejenkins7379
    @joannejenkins7379 8 месяцев назад +1

    I really enjoyed hearing about your past Christmas and upcoming holiday plans. Also it reminded me to put apple cider on my list.🎄🍎

  • @susiscott4968
    @susiscott4968 8 месяцев назад

    We didn’t have many holiday traditions, but the one we did have I think was pretty cool … My Dad was born and spent his younger years growing up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Every Christmas they would go out and find a tree, but instead of cutting it down, they would dig it up, put it in a large pot and decorate it for the season. Later they would replant it in the yard or back in the woods. We carried on that tradition growing up.

  • @darlaburnett8666
    @darlaburnett8666 8 месяцев назад

    oh wow you are bringing up such memories here in my hometown we did used to have one of those candy cane Lane neighborhoods that everybody decorated their homes and they were labor and they were beautiful so you went every year to see them but of course those people have gotten older cause heck I’m almost 60 so that would’ve been in my very younger years so they have passed on and their kids did not keep that tradition so we don’t have there was like five places that you went in town to see the Christmas decorations and we don’t have that anymore but we still have the river drive and walk where they decorate the whole. It’s probably like I don’t know at least a mile maybe maybe longer it may be longerworth of lights and every year they add to it and then you go over to the old Concho and they’ve got the big beautiful ray of a couple of different set ups so those are things that I do every year and they will start this weekend, December 3

  • @aprilsmith6587
    @aprilsmith6587 8 месяцев назад +1

    Awe. Kinsley is so adorable.

  • @SloansCommonGround
    @SloansCommonGround 8 месяцев назад +1

    I can’t wait for vlogmas! Best part of the year :)

  • @sarahlouisecoleman7709
    @sarahlouisecoleman7709 8 месяцев назад

    Great podcast thank you!
    For the village houses check out Model railway shops in LA. You’ve probably thought this. My dad was big into model trains and painted little houses and building for his model railway. There should be different gauge sizes. Hope you find something ❤️🇬🇧

  • @patwilkinson2182
    @patwilkinson2182 8 месяцев назад

    Another excellent podcast. Hope you share all your stockings you embroiderd

  • @brendakeener2259
    @brendakeener2259 8 месяцев назад

    I always give my family pajamas to my daughters family and grandchildren, we open on Christmas eve then make cookies and hot chocolate pile in the car and go see all the Christmas lights. Love your youtube and pods.

  • @kuttyathai
    @kuttyathai 8 месяцев назад

    Love your advice- any chance you can do an episode on how you budget or save for projects or goals like buying a house etc?

  • @jeanettewhite2144
    @jeanettewhite2144 8 месяцев назад

    I love all your podcasts. You make them all so interesting. Thank you ❤❤❤

  • @kreativekimberlycohouseofwall
    @kreativekimberlycohouseofwall 8 месяцев назад +6

    Have you ever tried Italian or French style hot cocoa? It’s thick and creamy and oh so delicious

  • @katiemagdziarz9078
    @katiemagdziarz9078 8 месяцев назад

    I know you don’t get snow where you are… but maybe you could choose a temperature degree. I live in Northern Utah and every year when we have the first snow of the season.. my kids know to rush home from school and we will make our family (my parents, my sister and her family, my Aunt). What we call “snow cookies.” Then we take them around to them and give them these special Almond butter “snow cookies”. My family will now text me if they see snow in the forecast… “it’s almost snow cookie time!” We love it!

  • @deborahdomengeaux9093
    @deborahdomengeaux9093 8 месяцев назад +1

    My Mom had a ceramic shop with the type of Christmas houses!

  • @WendySThomson
    @WendySThomson 8 месяцев назад

    MaCenna, your story of how your family always celebrated Christmas on New Years Day reminds me so much of my family. We always celebrated Christmas with my Mom's family on Christmas Day but had another Christmas celebration with my Dad's family which we always celebrated on New Years. It is so fun to hear about how your family did that also.

  • @maryford5527
    @maryford5527 8 месяцев назад

    In Melbourne Australia on Christmas Eve we have Carols by Candlelight. It takes place in a park and is a fundraiser for the blind. It started in 1937 and raises hundreds of $ each year. It is a tradition for many families to go or watch on TV.

  • @k1mst3r
    @k1mst3r 8 месяцев назад +1

    I sure hope you can do these village houses! I'm feeling inspired!

    • @k1mst3r
      @k1mst3r 8 месяцев назад

      Also loving that pillow next to you, where is it from?

  • @darlaburnett8666
    @darlaburnett8666 8 месяцев назад

    My best friend why they listen to music. They have it like a weekend prior and then the week of Christmas the weekend prior is to come over to her house and they make and roll the dough out and cut their gingerbread houses and get them ready then Christmas Eve night are actually I think it’s December 23 when they get together and have a big family supper. They also have their gingerbread house decorating contestand everybody has to decorate one😊

  • @seemakedia81
    @seemakedia81 8 месяцев назад

    The auden..... Candle is looking... Soo wow.. ❤

  • @claudineclaudinehamon2300
    @claudineclaudinehamon2300 8 месяцев назад

    I love going to Christmas markets where people sells their own home made creations, made of wood, fabrics, jewelry...and then every year I also create new decorations made of pallets, garden polls, book pages, toilet paper rolls...and usually some friends are joining too 😍😍🤩🤩 sSnce I teach French to new foreign inhabitants, we usually create, visit, talk about different subjects. And last week we created few tree decorations, explanations were in French...they learn by playing, creating, visiting...I love it

  • @gingerlove1364
    @gingerlove1364 8 месяцев назад

    I love your Christmas decorations in your home. In my family I buy a special Christmas ornament for each one of my children and grandchildren every year. I have done this since they were little. That way they have their own collection started. Oh and I prefer apple cider over hot cocoa as well. 😉

  • @triciaharvey9936
    @triciaharvey9936 8 месяцев назад

    Im so happy to hear that you'll be doing Christmas at the cottage too. She never got her full glam up for Christmas 😂.

  • @sylviawolff433
    @sylviawolff433 8 месяцев назад +1

    Divide a Christmas puzzle into twenty five parts for an advent calendar.

    • @foxymama9203
      @foxymama9203 8 месяцев назад

      @sylviawolff433, what a great idea!!!! I think I will borrow that idea this year!

  • @bleumoon8426
    @bleumoon8426 8 месяцев назад

    Hot cocoa fan here 😋 our tradition is to not do gifts but to spend the day at the outlets and we set a budget and shop for ea other ❤ takes the pressure off and we get what we want!

  • @babyjinspire
    @babyjinspire 8 месяцев назад

    I live in New Zealand 🇳🇿 and am a proud Filipina! Our family tradition is themed Christmases. Each year, we (as in all the Titas, Tito, cousins etc) get together for our noche buena, Christmas Eve, and each family contributes ideas, and then we vote via a poll on Viber. The one with the most votes wins!!! This year, we'll be dressing up in the decade we were born. So excited!!! 🎉

  • @theflourishinghippie
    @theflourishinghippie 8 месяцев назад

    Team apple cider! I enjoy hot chocolate occasionally but usually it just upsets my stomach. Some traditions my fiance and I have is making chicken fettuccine on Christmas Eve (inspo The Holiday) and watching White Christmas. Then on Christmas morning we make homemade cinnamon rolls.
    Growing up on Christmas Eve we would drive around the block and look at Christmas lights and before bed my mom would read us A Visit from St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas).

  • @janetbof4
    @janetbof4 8 месяцев назад

    GREAT FAMILY GAME SUGGESTION:
    If you have enough of Romeos family members, I HIGHLY suggest getting the game Pictionary, the actual boxed game not online or other versions if they exist. We always split into 2 or 3 teams to compete and if there are young kids we split them into different teams. We always made sure the child knew the team was honored to have them (some kids are shy) we never wanted the kids to feel a team was “stuck” with them. Believe me, if you can’t draw well, that is what makes the game hysterical. One must be able to laugh at themselves and laughed at by more others.
    We also split up the actual artists in our family so they couldn’t be on the same team. We found getting a cheap stand up easel for each team made it so much fun because everyone can see the so called artists at work vs everyone trying to stand over the person drawing. 😄 You are guaranteed lots and lots of laughs. I even saved two of the most hilarious pictures my dad did over the years and sent him a photo every year just to remind him. 😂
    Be sure to have enough pencils w/ erasers (people erase to fix/change their art as they draw so pens are out. lots of paper or chalkboard to erase between turns.
    Merry Christmas

  • @jennifergraham3752
    @jennifergraham3752 8 месяцев назад

    My favourite holiday tradition with my husband’s family is that every year we play a gift game. Everybody brings a wrapped and anonymous present. These presents can be something good but often it’s something weird or funny everybody’s name goes in hat and the first name chosen chooses a gift to wrap. They then choose a name for the next person who can either choose a new gift from the pile or steal the original present continues until everybody has had a chance to get a gift or steal a gift at this point there’s a number of gifts that resurface every year and everybody jokes about not getting it. There are strategies between families how to get and keep the good gifts during the stealing process because each gift can only be stolen. So many great laughs! We’ve paired back giftgiving in the family as everybody got older so it’s nice to have something to look forward to that is both fun and you could end up with something nice (if you are lucky) 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jeanetteacosta2399
    @jeanetteacosta2399 8 месяцев назад

    I have a village that I collect that love. It would be cool to create a village piece ornament that you can put in there stocking or give a gift as thank you for coming to your home and spending the holidays with you, Romeo and Kinsley 😊

  • @katybowles2899
    @katybowles2899 8 месяцев назад

    I'm a savory over sweets girl myself and Im team apple cider all the way! Our tradition is to read the Christmas story for the month of December. The book of Luke in the Bible has enough chapters to read one a day and finish by Christmas. And yes, the. decorating, cinnamon rolls Christmas morning, etc! All the things : )

  • @darlaburnett8666
    @darlaburnett8666 8 месяцев назад

    OK I’m gonna respond as I listen to your podcast. In regards to the little village houses and you want to DIY them, you need to find you a good ceramic shop where you can just go buy the bisque the unfired pieces. I used to have one, when I was in my 20s and one time when we moved as we were unloading the truck. A box fell out the back of the semi and it happened to be all my houses for my village that my mother and I had painted. Along with the reindeer. But my mom had the ceramic shop and all of the different houses and churches, and all the little intricate pieces to make your Village or your homes come to life as a little city village. Again you’re looking for a ceramic shop and they are becoming more popular again because you kids think that it’s so cool that it’s coming back around. You can pick your own pieces.

  • @AudraLeigh01
    @AudraLeigh01 8 месяцев назад

    Team hot Apple Cider. Family tradition on Xmas eve is to have appetizers only for dinner.

  • @judyshallstrom415
    @judyshallstrom415 8 месяцев назад

    Im going to try to find it. It seems i heard it once before. ❤merry Christmas. Found quite a few on youtube😊

  • @aprilsmith6587
    @aprilsmith6587 8 месяцев назад

    Christmas at the cottage with your whole family. Awesome. Too bad the house isn't done.

  • @melaniebowman5530
    @melaniebowman5530 8 месяцев назад +1

    I did the same thing growing up with ceramic houses! We're the same age. I googled - I think ArtMinds and California Creations are the brands that my Mom would buy... there seem to be a lot of unpainted ones on secondhand sites like Mercari and ebay

  • @MrsMoe72
    @MrsMoe72 8 месяцев назад

    Apple cider and hot cocoa are too sweet for me, I’m team champagne 🥂 😊

  • @Abu_buns
    @Abu_buns 8 месяцев назад

    I wonder if other hobby shops that sell models for train sets or dnd minis would sell more intricate buildings like the ones you’re thinking of.

  • @kindlurkerfrazier5476
    @kindlurkerfrazier5476 8 месяцев назад

    Team both! But I must say, I mostly like the hot cider anytime in Autumn and Hot Chocolate/Cocoa in Winter. So win-win. Also, I really like your tree and mountains pillow. Very nice.

  • @darlaburnett8666
    @darlaburnett8666 8 месяцев назад

    I totally understand when you’re talking about your mother owning her boutique and y’all decorating 40 trees. No, I don’t decorate 40 trees, but I would be all out and elaborate at the office and get so depressed because people would complain about things that were either up or warm up, but yet never wanted to contribute to so by the time it was my time to go home and put up my tree I don’t want to do it and it makes me so sad and mad at the same time! So I understand when you say y’all didn’t have a Christmas tree😢😢

  • @colleenmcculloch1527
    @colleenmcculloch1527 8 месяцев назад

    I am with you. Love hot apple cider❤

  • @lilypoe9474
    @lilypoe9474 8 месяцев назад

    Santa mouse is a kids book about a mouse that helps deliver presents with Santa! Santa mouse delivers small gifts that he puts in the tree (instead of under) with a gold/ yellow ribbon tided around it

  • @RockPunkBallerina
    @RockPunkBallerina 8 месяцев назад

    Can I be team mulled wine? 😂One of my favourite traditions I kept up since childhood is watching some Christmas cartoons.

  • @donnastevenson6700
    @donnastevenson6700 8 месяцев назад

    We use to draw a name then that was who you filled a stocking for. Just little gifts, but sometimes some little gag gift. My mom was 70 at the time and I put a pregnancy test kit in it. She didn’t know what it was at first, we were dying laughing. When she realized what it was, said; you see, why I can’t take her anywhere! Omg was so funny

  • @charminz01
    @charminz01 8 месяцев назад

    Team hot chocolate!

  • @judyshallstrom415
    @judyshallstrom415 8 месяцев назад

    Your house looks very pretty. I saw a few village houses at Michael's the other day. They were made from a loght weight wood. Maybe balsa.
    For drinks, im team both❤

  • @colleenwest6953
    @colleenwest6953 8 месяцев назад

    I look all year thrifty children Christmas books 25 of them ,wrap them and kids open one each night of Dec

  • @bexbergh4295
    @bexbergh4295 8 месяцев назад

    You may want to try a ceramics shop. As in, the places where you paint bisque clay & they fire it for you? Either that, or you could look for plaster molds for slip casting green clay. Just a thought! Good luck!

  • @rhondaheckert2095
    @rhondaheckert2095 8 месяцев назад

    When my kids (who are all grown) and I are driving in the same car, if it's dark and we see Christmas lights the first one to yell (and I mean we get so into it and really yell) Christmas lights wins. And we do this EVERY time we see a house with lights. By the end of the ride whoever yelled it first the most times wins. We don't actually win anything except bragging rights. Sometimes it gets pretty rowdy, but we have a lot of fun and we laugh a lot!

  • @amandafarish87
    @amandafarish87 8 месяцев назад

    I love the thought of your little village, would it be too much work to make your own put of clay?

  • @victoriaadams2171
    @victoriaadams2171 8 месяцев назад

    I ordered a candle from you. I'm so excited to receive it soon. 😊

  • @ilse10481
    @ilse10481 8 месяцев назад

    Macenna? Where's the pillow with the trees from? I love it so much! 😍 I hope it's not thrifted.....😊

  • @lindabeck4254
    @lindabeck4254 8 месяцев назад

    Me too!!! I am ANA to dairy but I love hot cider!

  • @nomadine85
    @nomadine85 8 месяцев назад

    As you were talking about the intricate houses and painting them I realised that maybe they could have been kind of like, miniature game painting type houses? I know there’s a real term for it, but it’s usually stuff for train sets or battle fields, and I know that I’ve seen materials for that at craft stores. I just can’t remember the name. But also used for fantasy collectibles, I think? I could imagine there being really intricate houses. Figurine miniature painting maybe?

  • @babyjinspire
    @babyjinspire 8 месяцев назад

    I am team hot chocolate!

  • @colleenmasse9368
    @colleenmasse9368 8 месяцев назад

    I think the dollar stores have plain white ones.

  • @portuguesehydrangea4818
    @portuguesehydrangea4818 8 месяцев назад

    Next project: turn your childhood “Christmas Tree” into an ornament 🎄😊

  • @fiddliedee01
    @fiddliedee01 8 месяцев назад

    I have the cutest little houses from this company Unikalus Vaizdaz which I bought in a Christmas market in Edinburgh, Scotland. I think they are based in Lithuania. ☺

  • @eleondc9802
    @eleondc9802 8 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤

  • @tarynlackey1339
    @tarynlackey1339 8 месяцев назад

    Podcast day 🎉🎉❤ My heart is so darn happy every time you upload on any of your channels!!!!!! Where did you purchase your gorgeous Christmas pillow you have on your couch 🎄🎄🎄💗💗💗 LOVE YOU! #TeamHotChocolate

    • @anncollett7005
      @anncollett7005 8 месяцев назад

      I think she purchased it from Pottery barn last year.

  • @dearfuturejoann
    @dearfuturejoann 8 месяцев назад

    Each child picks a name from a gift tree and buys the items on the wish list.

  • @dianeaudevard6204
    @dianeaudevard6204 8 месяцев назад

    Why is Kinsley’s Christmas stockings not hanging on the fireplace?

  • @shaecannon6446
    @shaecannon6446 8 месяцев назад

    I am definitely team Apple Cider!!! I am a chocolate lover but I really don’t enjoy hot chocolate…go figure!

  • @Adrianaperez-eu4lr
    @Adrianaperez-eu4lr 8 месяцев назад

    Team hot chocolate

  • @sharoncherry
    @sharoncherry 8 месяцев назад

    Have you ever thought to contact a ceramic pottery person to see if they would know of someone who might do the houses?