We continue our “Hosting for the Holidays” series with some personal decorating tips from Kim O’Donnell, Sales and Marketing Manager for Morton’s in White Plains.
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If you’re hosting people in your home for the holidays, you’re all too familiar with the complexities and details behind a Turkey dinner or Christmas feast. But this time of year just begs for decorations, so here are some ideas that can help take the stress out of dressing up your home for friends and family.
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Hosting a Thanksgiving get-together somehow seems more chaotic than any other holiday. Maybe that’s because there are several more courses than your standard meal! So to maintain your sanity, try to keep things simple for Thanksgiving decorating. Go with natural elements…such as a row of smaller pumpkins down the table as a centerpiece (providing there’s enough room!), or fill a tall vase with pine cones and small evergreen branches. And if you have children, they can help with the decorating, too! Get them the supplies they’ll need to make a simple banner (in glitter, markers or paints) that reads, “Give Thanks” or “Happy Thanksgiving.” It’s a sweet reminder that this holiday isn’t about the glitz or the glamour…it’s about spending quality time with the people you love and being appreciative of the things you have.
When it comes to Christmas, the decorating takes center stage and becomes something of an event in my family. I decorate the entire house for the holidays and truly enjoy the warmth in brings. Somehow a light in the window says, “May the peace of the season be with you.” I guess I get that from my mother, who truly loves Christmas. Growing up, we always had the most decorated house in town!
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As a child, the excitement of the season started when the first red velvet bow hit the window and grew as the tree was adorned with our loving family memories in the form of decorations. Rather than making the decorating a task or another item on our “To Do” list, we made it a family affair…a time to bond and really enjoy the holiday season.
Some of those same tree decorations get hung on my family’s tree each year. Although we don’t get a huge tree, it takes hours to decorate it. We spend time going over each ornament and remembering how it came to us. And we add at least one new ornament each year, usually from a trip or an important occasion. This year’s ornament was given to us as a “congratulations” from my daughter’s high school when she was accepted last Spring. This year it will hang on our tree…and someday, she’ll tell her children the story behind that, and all the other, ornaments. And to me, that’s what holiday decorating is all about. Rather than it being a source of stress, it’s a source of memories.
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Cheers!
Kim O’Donnell
Sales and Marketing Manager
Morton’s The Steakhouse – White Plains
