I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, if you celebrate! And if not, I hope you had a restful day off.
I thought I’d share with you what I’ve been up to these past few weeks for the holidays.
Can you believe that my family has never had a Christmas tree? Not even a fake one. Growing up, we never had that much money to spare so a Christmas tree was out of the question. My first pay check as a dental hygienist? I bought a Christmas tree for my family. It’s small, lopsided, and perfectly imperfect. But it’s our first tree so we love it to death. And spoiling it like crazy with ornaments.
One of my close friends, Jen, came back from school in Miami. We both love the holiday season so we headed downtown to Union Square to take photos with the Christmas tree.
Each year Macy’s teams up with the SFPCA to create window scenes to encourage people to adopt pets.
I don’t think I could have survived the massive rainstorm without one of these hot chocolates. It made dreary rainy days soo much better.
But of course, massive is relative. We don’t see severe rainstorms that often in San Francisco.
The alternative? Any sort of tea with chrysanthemum flowers.
On Christmas Eve, my sisters, Jen, and I went for our annual shabu shabu. It’s winter. We love our soup.
Jen and I headed downtown to window shop. There’s something about the winter season that’s perfect for window shopping.
Of course, the view is perfect from Macy’s Santa Land.
We indulged. Seriously.
There’s an Irish pub downtown called Lefty O’Doul’s. Every year on Christmas Eve, they hold a fundraiser in hopes of gathering 10,000 donated toys for the SF Firefighter Toy Program. If you’ve read this post, you know why this toy program is important to me. This year, they had a snow machine to create the illusion of snow. They had an orchestra playing Christmas carols besides a Santa. And there are empty barrels set up for donation.
What did you do to celebrate the holidays?
Your tree is very cute and festive. Sounds like you had a nice holiday. 🙂
We did! Thanks, Judy! Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas! How thoughtful you were to buy a tree for your family.
Thank you! We’ve been wanting a tree for a long time now =)
I love your tree! small and lopsided doesn’t matter…it is what you make of it 🙂
I agree. We loved our tree =)
Nice tree …Merry Christmas to you x
Thank you! Happy New Year!
What a cute Christmas tree! Money well spent 🙂
I completely agree =)
I love your tree. Absolutely fabulous. Glad to hear and see you have a wonderf time @Christmas.
So nice!;-) I celebrated Christmas at home with my husband and our pets and it was relaxing and nice. We made three courses on Christmas Eve and otherwise survived on this and that, mainly goodies. 😉 Check out my blog for pictures and recipes!;-)
It always nice to just relax over the holidays. We didn’t really do much either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Just tons of Christmas movies and cookie baking. I’ll definitely stop by your blog to take a look at your holiday posts! Happy New Year!
hi have always loved your blog miss stilletto is also known as your first name too lol kool.
Hi! Thank you so much for visiting my blog! I’m soo glad to hear that you like it! Have a wonderful new year, Miss Stilleto =)
That Christmas tree is adorable! 🙂
Thank you! lol. We were so sad when we had to take it down!
MerRy Christmas to you and your loved ones!
Thank you so much! Happy New Year to you and your family =)