Never heard of a tea table?? GASP! Well .. have you ever heard of a Hot Cocoa Sled Table that also converts to a Tea Table? I got one! :bye: I keep my Christmas decorations up year round … never tired of the theme and use lots of fairy white battery operated lights. B-) Ah, Geri, from that picture I deduct that you are probably of Irish extraction, right? My favorite school principal that I ever worked for said quite often, “Everyday is Christmas.” He meant it and lived it. Each year I don’t put all of my Christmas decorations away. I leave a few of my favorites out. Yep, a pinch of Irish but more of thee Italian and Sicilian bloodlines. Hence my love for the Italian dishes and pizza. :whistle: Sicilian? That sounds dangerous! My ancestry is half French (the good half) and half German. How about the the rest of you? Ooh I love how your favorite school principal thought “Everyday is Christmas!” :yes: I got sooooo many decorations I don’t have a garage at this place nor can I use the attic. So, instead of keeping them all in containers … I’m displaying them in various rooms. My living/dining room I got the Christmas theme going … if I can get motivated to finish up painting the kitchen cabinets white … I will get that room decorated in the Christmas theme. The entire basement is deck out with the Christmas Farmhouse theme and have the tree decorated with some of my old childhood toys on display underneath the tree … I have 20 wooden lollipops I painted years ago and would display out doors but at this place … I’m afraid some one might take them so they are leaning up against the painted white cement walls. I have a wooden train set going up the staircase with elves sitting inside. Elves are everywhere … I bought over 150 elves years ago before elf on the shelf became famous. I would display them all over the house and have a game set up for all my nieces and nephews to play with 35 questions. Some adults played the game too because the prizes were loot bags filled with candy and other prizes for the kids. I even made their elf shoes for them to wear and bought the felt elf hats. It was grand central station at our house entertaining them for 3 weeks. Lots of fun. I hope it continues in the next life. One of the bathrooms upstairs is dedicated to the Christmas theme … I hope to continue the same theme tradition in my eternal home. :whistle: I’m a true mutt — I have American Cherokee Indian (material grandmother), Irish (Material Grandfather from Cork County), German (paternal side), and a bit of aborigine blood per DNA tracing (who really knows) — per Ken Ham, creation scientist, my original ancestor is Japheth, Noah’s son. Looking forward to a new name and my eternal home — born, bought, and believe…. :yahoo: Tammie, you’re both with the Hatfields and McCoys lineage? I hope there are libraries up in heaven and it has our ancestry and all about those who gotten saved and their lives are recorded to read about. One of my saved grandfather’s last name is listed in the Bible and it’s in Arab territory so I’m afraid to do any more research … I’ll be going in circles for a long long time … on how it’s connected to Shem, Ham or Japheth. Some bloodlines are simple and straight cut and then others are going down lots of rabbit holes. 😆 I'm Yankee, my family has been in CT since 1700s. We are English, No. Irish, Dutch Welsh and according to Ancestry ?German. All very Protestant. My Great Aunts traced the generations through town and church records. My Grandmother took a broom to my head when I told her I was marrying an Irish Catholic! All was forgiven when my first born son made her a Great Grandma! Yes I am! My mother is from the Hatfields and my fathers hillbilly folks are from the McCoys — my mom and dad are 4th cousins through Little Barry Basham — and yes that was his legal name, all of it…. I have a few of those types of names in my family tree. As the story goes my dad’s side fled Germany during the Protestant persecution, leaving it all and they were supposedly from aristocrats — came to Virginia and moved to Tennessee / Kentucky - surviving in the hills will knock that “high-Fluten” ways out of ya for sure…. My grandfather hated Catholics guess it was a trait passed on from that side, he had a still in the hills and did a bit of bootlegging —- my other grandfather came over as a baby from Ireland and later married my Indian grandmother, I really miss her, she will be in heaven to meet me…. My mom is number 11 of 12…. I have so many cousins that I really don’t know them all, especially when it gets to the third and fourth level. Funny still is my hubby’s mom was also Cherokee and best as we can tell from the same tribal area. I probably married a cousin :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: I went to school with a girl who was related to Jessie James, her name was Jennie James — how funny we are about history…. Most of the time I just say, I am a mutt that can be traced back to Japheth and leave it there. There is so much we don’t know, much is speculation, and tales passed down that is like the “telephone” game and I am not 100% sure those DNA tests are real…. :unsure: 
