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Holiday fun – Ottawa photographer

December 28, 2025

I’m almost never on top of things as we get into the holiday season. But this year I was feeling pretty good. Until Christmas eve…when I realized I jam-packed too many things into the next few days. Then the holidays were just a blur since. Haha! Just a few of my favourite things to share with you today.

Two of my favourite things: Christmas lights and my morning tea in a Christmas mug I received last year in a Secret Santa exchange.
In our house, you know it’s Christmas tree day when you hear Kenny and Dolly blasting on the stereo. This year, on vinyl. (Funny enough…both sets of parents owned this album.) And then down in the basement, my “wrapping station” had our old boom box for playing some vintage cassettes. The selection was limited to the Home Alone 2 soundtrack, and a mixtape from 1991.
The kitties love Christmas too!! (Especially on Amazon delivery day.)
This is the newest addition to our little Christmas animals. I came home from work one day to see these squirrels on my front lawn. Apparently my mom was covertly working with the kids to get these installed to surprise me. Well it worked! I don’t think we usually have this much snow over the holidays. The poor little guys keep getting buried!!
We have our selection of Christmas movies we try to fit in yearly. But over the last few years we have started watching the holiday sitcom episodes when we don’t have time for a full movie. These shows are just so funny!! Our favourites are definitely Frasier and Modern Family. But we added some different ones this year.
I love to add new ornaments to the tree. These are from our 25th anniversary trip to the East Coast this summer. We spent most of our time in PEI and Nova Scotia.
And it wouldn’t be the holidays without a few treats. The kids did all of my baking this year. (E mostly. G was more of a “consultant”.) And a little boozy Grinch punch to add a little extra fun to our Christmas day.

Wishing everyone a very merry holiday season!! We’ll chat next year.

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