The "Christmas Decorating At LDub's Villa" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Helping my dear wife decorate for the Christmas Holidays which is fast approaching.   This will be our first Christmas in our new villa which is located at Woodcrest Villas along the Harrisburg Pike to the East of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  My wife Carol and I spent all of our married lives in a few different homes over the 50+ years that we have been married, and made our final move to Woodcrest where we can mingle with folks our age in surroundings that allow us to enjoy the rest of our married life together.  Our villa is a one level, two bedroom, two bath hime with a beautiful sun porch that our two permanent guests (cats) love.  We have been in our villa for close to two months now and just in time to decorate for this upcoming Christmas.  We have brought with us from our last house (our beach house as we called it) the myriad of decorations which we have tried to incorporate into the surroundings of our new villa.  Check out some of the photos I have taken that illustrate some of the decorations that Carol and our children and grandchildren have helped us place in every room of the villa.  Hope you enjoy them as much as we have been enjoying them for the past week or so.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.  

The entrance from our living room onto our sun porch

One of two sets of shelves on either side of our fireplace.

The other set of shelves

Santa with his bag of goodies which Carol made years ago.

My childhood Teddy bear holding his friend.

Carol's coffee pot with angel

Nutcrackers on top of our kitchen cabinets.

Part of our china cabinet

A shell tree we bought at the Jersey Shore

"Door bells"

The living room mantel

Our ancient creche we bought during our first year together.

Pillows large and small which Carol made.

Display of Christmas cards from our friends Jere and Sue

An overall view of our living room and sun room.
Our Christmas tree stands in the sun room.

An old coffee table I made filled with past Christmas cards