This week I've been trying to get the holiday decorations put away. My arthritis has been hurting a lot, as well as some headaches, so it's been a slow process. I've got everything down, finally, but now I must get the storage boxes out of 2 different closets & pack them away. Hopefully, I'll do that within the next week.
One of the easier tasks is taking the cards off the door where I display them. Each year there gets to be fewer cards as people economize. I enjoy ecards, but still favor the old-fashioned paper cards that I can keep. This year I got about 20 snail mail cards, plus a few Christmas letters without cards. It was enough to fill up the door nicely, as you can see in the picture.
As I mentioned last month, my sister got me a large nutcracker riding a hobby horse (picture below) that I placed under the tree. I measured it & it's 18 inches tall! It's well made and looks quite magical. I'm really happy to have it and wrapped it carefully in bubble wrap for storage.
The house always looks so blah after taking down the decorations, that it takes awhile to readjust. All that hard work just to make things boring looking. At least the work to put everything up is worth it, as things are bright & festive.