Comments on: Angels in the Woods https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/ My life is books. Always, always books. Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:11:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Candice https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10235 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:11:59 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10235 In reply to Steve Riley.

We all make bloopers!

]]> By: Candice https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10234 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:11:24 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10234 In reply to Melissa Gaggiano.

Thanks, Melissa. Merry Christmas to your family!
xo

]]> By: Candice https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10233 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:10:51 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10233 In reply to Steve Riley.

Steve, the last time I was in Northern Virginia, I couldn’t even find Stringfellow Road. If it’s like West Ox Road, it’s a four-lane highway now.

When Pat, my sister, was still home she did the meticulous tinsel hanging. Sometimes we’d throw it on just for fun, but then we’d straighten it out again.

Christmas memories are hard sometimes, but they also keep us warm. Yes, let’s be quiet and listen.

]]> By: Melissa Gaggiano https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10232 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:01:07 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10232 This is beautifully written.
Merry Christmas Candice!

]]> By: Steve Riley https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10231 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:40:07 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10231 Correction. We lost our mother when I was thirty seven.

]]> By: Steve Riley https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10230 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 22:53:56 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10230 Thanks for sharing this beautiful story and the great photos of your decorations.
It takes me back to my growing up on Stringfellow Road with the decorations going up inside and outside.
How my mother, whom we lost at age thirty seven, would so meticulous decorate our home with the help of my brothers, sisters and me. Especially the tree. She would spend hours, after the children had finished, making sure every thing was just right down to the silver ice cicles. How I missed those Christmases of my youth.

Let us be quiet and listen for the Angles this Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Steve

]]> By: Candice https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10229 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:01:45 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10229 In reply to Melodye.

Ribbon candy! A hard candy Christmas, like Dolly Parton’s song, those creme-filled pillow mints, and peppermint logs. My mother made pastel wafer mints tinted green and pink, a Southern tradition I couldn’t master if I tried.

Melodye, hit some of those fabulous flea markets in your neck of the woods and fill a bowl with vintage ornaments. It won’t be the same as your Nana’s . . . but they will honor her memory.

Have a great Christmas!

]]> By: Candice https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10228 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:58:36 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10228 In reply to Jeannine Atkins.

Jeannine, with all your work this fall, the new books, the teaching, I’m amazed you can put up a tree at all! There is holiday spirit in your house without a sprig of holly. Here, we have to work at it.

The best part of the tree (or trees) is their lights chase away the December gloom. I am tempted to keep little pre-lit trees in every room all winter . . .

Cheers from Virginia!

]]> By: Melodye https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10227 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 05:45:54 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10227 I crave vintage, kitchy ornaments and ribbon candies, but they do not bring back my Nana. This blog post, however….the memories (and tears) come flooding back.

Thank you, Candice, and Merry Christmas!!!

]]> By: Jeannine Atkins https://candiceransom.com/blog/angels-in-the-woods/#comment-10226 Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:25:37 +0000 http://www.candiceransom.com/honeysucklevine/?p=4859#comment-10226 You give us so much beauty with your honest words and bedazzling pictures. I am sitting beside a not-yet-decorated tree, one throw on the sofa, and two ceramic angels my Grandmere made. I did take a shower this morning. Just don’t have the ornamenting gene, but I love yours, even as I hear you wrestle. I suppose sometimes it’s a gift to turn off the lights.

Wishing you merriment!

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