To Drop by Unannounced, Be Prepared with Hip Waders.

The deception of bloggy photography could lead one to falsely believe that my house looked like this for more than the two seconds it took to snap these pictures.





 

I was going to take pictures of all the rooms decked out for Christmas,

but after these few I stopped because it seemed so silly.  Really, so very silly.

The truth is, unless it's immediately after we've done our daily chores, most of the house looks like this.

 

And that's even when the girls aren't pulling out all the stops to make things like these.

It's nice to sometimes have an excuse for the mess, though.