Tonight, we had Christmas Cookies for dinner…

…and then, after the evening’s walk – drive – and dash from house to house – we had lasagna for dessert.

Annual house tours, whether they celebrate winter, spring, summer or fall are fun to do with friends. Oh, imagine this, picture that. It is fun to dream and be just a little bit wistful. What would it be like if your own home were to be decorated to the hilt.

Oh, how we’d celebrate. We’d invite everyone we know to come and see our home. A once in a lifetime offer to follow the theme, from room to room, indoors and out, throughout the house and garden.

Maybe not to have strangers peeking in and out of doorways, fireplaces and our living room, kitchen and porch – but big groups of our closest girls, best buds and acquaintances – for them, sure we would do it.

If it were an option.

Then, after all the laughs, the food and the wine (oh, the wine) we would eat our fill of Christmas Cookies and call it a night.

~ Dawn aka Hat Girl