Hanging Mistletoe
There’s a little Christmas fever creeping into our house. It’s subtle in most ways. But today, I dare anyone to walk into the house and miss this:
Yep. The world’s largest Christmas mistletoe is pinned above our bedroom door.
Why not, right? (Sorry for the funky photo angle. The Christmas tree was trying to play footsies with me.)
I wanted to find some mistletoe that we could use year after year. This one is made of felt by West Elm for $9. Let’s see if I just hang out right here. Maybe I can get my money’s worth!
Do you ever hang mistletoe at your house? Or go somewhere where it always hangs? I bet there’s a memory of people kissing under one… you know, even if it’s just in the movies!
Haha, right outside the bedroom door. Perfect!
Hi Katie,
I think I’m going to read every post you ever wrote. Haha. I just think there’s something really sincere about your approach to life/blogging and it’s really attractive.
As for moving around…
Do you think you’d move around frequently if you had children? We have a baby who is nine months old and want her to see the world and stay with her grandparents at the same time.
Kate
Hi Other Kate,
I just wanted to chime in that we are a military family and thus move around probably more often than some. We have a 28 month old. Part of the appeal to me of military moving was getting a chance to see/live in other parts of the world. But being away from family isn’t the easiest thing. When he was a baby, my son would not let my in laws hold him without screaming and even now he’s a bit stand offish at the beginning of a visit. We do get to see family fairly often between the two sets of grandparents visiting and us going home, but it’s not the same as living in close. We Skype a lot, at least weekly with each set of grandparents. We are currently about 2000 miles away from family right now and hope to head overseas in the next couple of years. I think there are ways of maintaining a close relationship between a child and their grandparents when a large distance separates them, but it takes conscious effort, especially as the child gets beyond the toddler years.
Best Wishes,
Another Kate
It’s a HUGE hope of ours that if we do have kids, we can still travel and live in cool places. Who knows, though! Well I guess another Kate knows. :) Good response, Kate! Thanks.
We have a Danish cut paper mobile of mistletoe that I hang in the doorway to the living room every year. You can never have too many mistletoe kisses at Christmas!
I haven’t ever thought about hanging mistletoe. I think that would be a fun part of our Christmas decorations.
Hi. Just jumping into the talk about moving with children. I have 3 and can tell you that it is possible to move to different countries at all ages. I know it’s personal choice…some people don’t like the idea of moving after starting kindergarten but it can be quite amazing for them to experience different schools in different countries. My youngest is the equivalent of a high school junior (we’re not in the US). We moved at various ages and grades if that makes sense. I have no regrets. The children say the same. That’s not to say it was always easy, maintaining family relationships over distances particularly. As for mistletoe, not a tradition with us but I do like your felt version. Maybe we’ll start a new tradition…