Way back in October I remembered hearing about the Christmas tour of homes hosted by The Nester, but by the time I had successfully decorated my house for Christmas while holding a squirming baby on my hip and having to stop to breastfeed after hanging every third ornament, I was too dang excited not to publish this post ASAP with pictures of our sparkling tree.

Whoops. Kinda ruined the surprise.

So hey, guess what! It’s O My Christmas revisited. Only it’s cooler this time because it’s linked up and whatnot. Plus there are new, cooler, excitinger pictures. Just you wait.

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Our mantle is now complete with the stockings from Pottery Barn (thanks to advice from my tweeps!). I was looking for ones that are classic and that I could order more of in the coming years, should we, you know, hypothetically, maybe, think about potentially, ever trying to have more children.

Which would be some time very, very far in the future.

After I’ve slept more than 4 consecutive hours.

(This is the part of the tour where you pretend you don’t see the leg of that baby jumper in the bottom corner of the picture.)

(Thank you kindly.)

DanO and I had the “Do the parents’ stockings belong next to each other or do they sandwich the children(s)’?” debate when we hung them (with care?) at like 12:30am a few nights ago.

I won. Except sometimes I will come into the room and find them rearranged.

More vinyl wall decor we made with my birthday present (mentioned here). Suddenly words are popping up on surfaces all over my home. It’s awesome.

BTW, “Mom” is the name on my stocking. When will that stop blowing my mind? Man O man.

The Olfelt family pickle ornament. Because, why not hang a pickle on your tree?

Actually it’s a German tradition where the pickle is hidden somewhere on the tree by Father Christmas  and the child who finds it first on Christmas morning receives a special gift.

This year is kind of a shoe-in.

The wreath I got a few questions about on the first Christmas decor post. It’s from HomeGoods, and if you look closely, there’s a dent in one of the ornaments (hint: it’s green). That totally saved me $12 off of the sticker price. I love bargaining on ‘damaged’ merch at HomeGoods.

It wouldn’t be an O My Family home tour if I didn’t point out all the imperfections, now would it? But hey! It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful! (Get it? GET IT?!)

Uhm, welp, that’s pretty much the end folks. No fancy tutorials on how to make gorgeous DIY Christmas decorations, no shots of spectacular holiday-themed room overhauls, and definitely nothing ridiculously amazing or creative.

Just a simple, cozy home with everyday Christmas decorations and a reminder written on our wall of what it’s really all about.

Amen.

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