{ Christmas decorations }

I have been slowly decorating.  Well, let me refrain that, I started off diving in deep and pulling it all out the week of Thanksgiving.

 

Then life happened, loss, and grief and all sorts of things, and I slowed down a bit, and just finished this past week setting up the last of the Christmas bits.  Thought I would show you all what it's looking like.

 

This weekend we are cleaning up the back and front yard, winterizing it all, covering furniture and so on.  Then we have just a few last outside decorations to get up, and we will officially be done for the holidays.

 

With my family arriving in less than a week, I don't have time to do much of anything, starting today I will be basically making Rissois all day long.  Rissois are the Portuguese savory version of a fried turnover with a creamy filling, usually the more traditional being shrimp, but you can do meat, chicken, tuna or whatever you like.

 

I will be making both meat and a shrimp and seafood mix.  They are time consuming and do take a lot of effort, but again I can't be doing that when the family is here because we will be full steam ahead with Christmas, so it's best that I get all of these jobs out of the way when it's just me here.

 

Anyway, let me show you the Christmas decorations, hope you enjoy :)