Ms. Dahlia, Detroit/Cleveland
Age and Occupation: 24, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, IT System Administrator
Engagement Date: December 31, 2006
Wedding Date: May 2008
Blogging Since: September 19, 2007
Venue: United Methodist Cathedral & historic downtown hotel in Cleveland
About Me: I enjoy cooking, dancing and swimming. I am a geek and apply game theory to my everyday life. Winter is my favorite time of year, especially when spent curled up with good coffee and a book by Madeleine L'Engle.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
December 21st, 2007 @ 4:52 pm by Ms. Dahlia
Things have been very busy over here for the holidays. We’re taking off tomorrow, but thought that we’d share with you some of the new tradition or two we have started this year. It is, after all, our first year living together, our first (and only!) Christmas being engaged, and the first time we have been around our home for the holidays. (Last year we were moving in December, and the previous years we were still in student mode.)One of the first things that we did was cut down our Christmas tree.
The tree farm.
Mr. Dahlia hard at work.
Enjoying the sunlight- it was cold that day!
Ready to go in the living room.
We have a Christmas tree!
I made Christmas stockings for us- we each picked out the fabric that we wanted.
Hoping that the pattern I made works out as I’m all set to cut the fabric.
Stitching it up. The sewing machine was my grandmother’s (she was phenomenal seamstress), and the drawer in it still smells like her.
Hanging off the bookcase, since we have no fireplace.
We are headed back to Cleveland tonight to celebrate Christmas with our families, so earlier today we celebrated our own Christmas here, complete with waking up at 5:30 in the morning (just like we were kids!) to unwrap gifts.
Since we are leaving town, I probably won’t be blogging much. But have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love,
Miss Dahlia (and Mr. Dahlia)
P.S. I would love to hear about any holiday traditions that you have started this year!
8 Responses to “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”
Hey cool pics. My camera died just was we were cutting the tree, so I only got one. 
We give each other ornaments every year, but this year, we giving ones that reflect our occupations.
Every year we set up the christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving while watching White Christmas and drinking eggnog or cranberry wine.
Your tree and stockings are lovely! Heh, the only tradition we started this year was to not bother with a tree or any decorations. We’re not spending Christmas at our house anyway, so we know we’ll get to enjoy the festive decor at both our sets of parents houses! It has been very stress-free this way, so we’re thinking we’ll stick to this tradition until we have kids. But I loved all the Christmas decorating when I was a kid, so we will definitely resume it when we have little ones of our own to make it special for them.
Neither of us is religious but we still celebrate Christmas with our families. This year, we’re starting a new tradition of exchanging Solstice gifts. It’s going to be our private moment to celebrate what’s most important about the holiday season - our love for each other. : )
Awww! I love the DIY stockings. I really have to learn to sew so that I can do neat projects like that 
This is our first Christmas being married and we went all out. We’ve had a lot of fun baking/decorating cookies and decorating our apartment for Christmas. We haven’t really started a new tradition yet though.
Cute pics! Love the DIY stockings
Dahlia, we hung our stockings off the bookcase before we had a fireplace too! By the way, they turned out great!
Cute stockings! We have nativity calendar that we use to countdown to Christmas.
