I took. Christmas all down today. I can’t stand all of the clutter and it feels like the house is closing in on me. I like to go into the New Year all fresh and deep cleaned. ❤
Hi Lauren. I already started taking my decor down. I am doing it little at a time. I staged a table with boxes and everything will goback into the garage pre organized. I am giving myself until New Years eve to get it all down. Like you, I get a little down removing the decor but so far I am not feeling that drag. Merry Christmas to all the viewers & Lauren please keep up the content. You are like chicken soup to the soul.
As for Xmas decor- I am also catholic so I always wait till after the epiphany. But now I moved from Hawaii to a much colder place ( northern VA). I plan to leave it till later January to keep so lit. I will even cut fresh cedar and spruce from my woods to redo my garland.
Merry Christmas again Lauren to you and your beautiful family, I decided to keep our decorations up until three Kings day, which is January 6, then sadly it all gets put away till next year. Wishing you a happy wonderful new year. ❤🎉
My trees turn into Valentine trees. My twins asked when they were in middle school if I could take trees down before Valentines Day.....(It really wasn't that bad)....but, I decided family tree of photos and hearts was my tradition for Valentines Day....I am a heart girl, makes me smile, and others shake they heads. ❤❤❤❤
I leave my Christmas up until New Year's Day and then take it down. It takes too long to put it up, so I am going to enjoy it, besides I love to sit at night and look at the lights, I love it!
Thank you for the great recipes; as a working mom myself, I’m grateful for them. Also for the encouragement to have formal dinners together. It’s such a luxury and blessing ❤
I enjoy our Christmas decor very much but on December 26th I start taking it down. Even though it is beautiful, I can't handle all the extra clutter too long and like to start the New Year with a clean slate. The entire month of January is spent deep cleaning, purging and decluttering. It just gives me peace of mind.
I will leave everything up until the end of January this year. I love the lights and don’t like how cold and gloomy winter is so this just makes it so nice for a bit longer , reading a book by my Christmas tree is priceless 💖
Hi Lauren! I definitely want to make that creamed spinach/squash soup, yum! I leave my decor up until early February. It is very cold and wintery here in New England and like to enjoy the snowy nights by the soft lights. I go right from winter decor to Easter! ❤
This video was incredible. It was so inspiring for me to make more of an effort to up my cooking game in the new year. I ordered the unapologetic cookbook and can’t wait to try new recipes and cook more from scratch. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lauren I tried your mushroom leek soup recipe today..and OMG it is so good..and so simple to make..thank you..you have great taste in recipes..and also your tortilla soup was awesome
I started taking everything down today. I always put all the decor in the dining room and then dust all the furniture. Tomorrow, I will put everything into containers and store them away. The house looks so empty but I love it. I've made sourdough bread before, but it was years ago. I remember it was really good. Great video!
I love making homemade bagels! They are quite easy and take about one hr and 15 min (that's with 30 min of it rising) 2 cups warm water (110°F) 3 tablespoons sugar 4 teaspoons active dry yeast 6 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon of baking soda (for the boiling water) Toopings of your choice (aged Parmesan, flaked sea salt, everything bagel seasoning, cheddar cheese, etc) In the bowl of a stand mixer add your warm water sugar and yeast let sit 5 minutes to become bubbly and activated. Add half of the flour & mix in your stand mixer with the dough hook attachment. Add your salt and the rest of the flour, gradually 1 cup at a time. Let knead in your stand mixer for 5 minutes on the medium low speed. Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl with a clean kitchen towel over to cover. Let stand in a warm place until doubled in size. In the mean time, get a deep saute pan or wide pot filled with water about halfway. You want to be able to boil about four bagels at a time so about that width. Bring water to a GENTLE boil. Preheat oven to 400°F. Portion dough into 12 equal portions. Roll into balls. Place finger in the middle of the ball stretching gently to make a bagel shape with a hole in the middle about an inch wide. Once your water is at a gentle boil add the 1 tsp of baking soda. This will bubble up, but go right back down. Gently place bagels into simmering water. BE CAREFUL not to splash yourself! Boil 25 seconds then carefully flip them over (i use chopsticks) boil another 25 seconds on the other side. Carefully take the bagels out with a slotted spatula and place on a cooling rack to drain. Place your drained bagels on a parchment lined baking sheet with about 2 inches spaced in-between. Top with whatever toppings you like! I notice if the bagels are slightly damp still on top the dry toppings stay on, but you could always use an egg wash. Bake the bagels at 400°F for 25 minutes. If you are using a heavy cheese they will take more like 30 minutes. The bagels will be a golden brown when ready. Start checking them at 20 min, everyone's oven cooks differently.
I love your videos. They're so inspiring. I'm going to declurater my Christmas decorations after the new year. 🎉. I wanna enjoy the magic until the last minute 😂❤❤❤
Happy new year 🎉. I’m keeping up my Christmas decor for a few weeks as winter is long & dreary here in Michigan 🥰 I’ll be looking & buying some new spring decor though!😉
Shred your own cheese the bagged ones have a powder to keep it fresh for months and the taste is off and it doesn’t melt the same. Once you shred your own you’ll taste the difference
I take down anything Santa and Christmas related and leave up everything winterish like trees with just their lights garland and anything snowy. as I live in south Texas and winter begins in January
Happy Holidays Lauren, family, fur babies, and feathered friends. How are you doing Lauren, I pray all is well with your soul. Thanks so much for sharing all the NEW you are learning. Going to begin slowly but surely taking Christmas down before the NEW YEAR! STTB 🎄
all the food looks so good! I will have to try both recipes! our family adores acorn squash! It is so sweet! most of the winter squash we like, summer squash, probably only butternut and zucchini! usually, I keep our decorations up until after new years, but I started taking some down today, I think I will leave the trees up, but everything else I am putting away. This year I really wasn't even in the mood to decorate! I have heard that alot from people this year, and I was no exception, I did put my stuff up, but it didn't bring me the joy it usually does! thanks so much for sharing! I love your videos! xoxo
I might put away some Christmas decor, but I’m still enjoying the lights and ambience at night. We will see how long it is until I want a clean slate. I still want to do more Christmas baking and enjoy Christmas season a little bit longer. 🩵🎄❄️☃️
I'll leave mine up for awhile. It changes year to year depending on what we have going on. But generally into January, at least. Both my granddaughters' birthdays are at the end of January, so we always enjoy the multiple trees as long as possible.
I started decorating my house on November 1st, but it's true, time seems to have passed so quickly.. too bad.. it's a truly magical period.. I'll keep my decorations for the first week of January... On January 6th we'll say goodbye to all this magic... it makes me sad.. but at the same time, after months submerged by decorations "I started the autumn decorations on August 1st" I also want to see my house return to its natural style.. I hope there will be videos while you take down your decorations, and organize everything.. I really like them.. A kiss from Italy.. Best wishes for these holidays
Hi Lauren, we usually keep our Christmas decor up til after the new year. I do take it down before I go back to work. You make cooking look so relaxing and easy. I cook some but not really anything fancy. Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas. Have a wonderful evening and see you next time.
I have to tell you, I truly enjoyed this video. I think it was all the cooking and definitely the breadmaking. I’m going to try it myself. You’ve really stepped up your game with this one.
I started taking things down today. I like to do it slowly so it is put away in an organized manor. Last year I just threw my ornaments in a storage box, and of course a lot of them were broken. I learned my lesson!
If the bread sags in the middle after cooling, it's not done. I start by proofing my yeast. I also never use standard sugar. I use inulin. I have my moms cookbook which I will pass on to my daughter later on.
My Christmas tree and decorations come down the day after Christmas as I am always ready to get my home back in order. All of the food looks delicious.
Merry Christmas lauren to you and your family...i took down all my Christmas decor today and cleaned up and resetting for the New Year..❤ i make my own sour dough starter i personally think its easy to do from scratch...i also use self rising flour and make 2 ingredient biscuits and yeast rolls simple recipe
Keeping ours up till end of January to enjoy! Celebrating Christmas all the month of January! Never did that before, but a first time for everything! Of course we will take down the out door lights after Epiphany Jan.6th.
I’m keeping my decor up for a couple of weeks. Because Thanksgiving was a week later, I’m keeping it for a bit. I have a wonderful family recipe for French bread! 😋
This is what you do to get your hair to grow and you wont cut it and hate the grow out phase. Keep it up in a french twist or some sort of updo. I grew mine out my bob in 2 years. You look beautiful either way, but I know extensions can be a pain. ( unwanted advice I know, but hopefully someone can use it lol )
I was so happy to see a video from you. Your soups looked so delicious and I love homemade bread. I am leaving my Christmas decorations up for awhile then I will take Christmas items away and do snowmen and a winter wonder land look.😊
You can easily make sourdough starter. I made mine over 10 years ago and it's still going strong. I have learned that sourdough is very easy. Don't believe all the "rules" you may read about it that scare most people off. It's very easy to use and maintain.
We are leaving Christmas up this year at least until after January 12. We have had a lot of sickness in our family this year with all of our grandchildren. We had to now spread out our Christmas celebrations until Jamnuary 12. I am sad that everyone was sick but happy to be able to leave up the tree an extra week or so to enjoy. Next year I start November 1st decorating so I can enjoy our home longer!
When you made the comment that you were mad when you find things that you wanted to use? I had to stop what I was doing to say oh yes, we must get more organized this coming year And it does seem like a lot of times it’s with the linens Love watching you!
Thursday day morning woke up and started cleaning and packing all my Christmas away feels so good sad but needed to be done. We are leaving for our trip soon even the outside. My neighborhood will thank me for not leaving Christmas decorations for two months 😊.
I like to keep it up until my daughter starts school end of January. That way she goes to school with Xmas joy and comes home with it all put away. Ready for a fresh mindset and new focus. I don’t want to stress her with the transition of putting it away.
Lauren, this was a great video. I really like the direction your channel is heading. I have made several of your recipes and each and every one of them have been delicious. I am going to make the acorn squash tomorrow it looks and sounds delicious, and the bread and soup this weekend. I have been making sourdough bread for a few years now; it is a process but so rewarding. You can make the starter which is very easy to do. I used the instructions from King Arthur's Sourdough Starter website. I use bread flour instead of what they suggested, but once you make the starter you can keep it going for years by feeding it. I also make great bagels using Joanna Gaines recipe. I will be slowly taking down the Christmas decorations, I love them, but I also like less things around me. Thank you for the recipes and I look forward to your new channel direction. Have a wonderful weekend and Happy New Year!
I managed Cinnabon in Santa Rosa Mall when it was a scratch bakery. We made all the dough. I would take the buns, cut sideswipe and make French toast..Awesome..Also cinnabon bread pudding was a hit❤❤...
It felt like Christmas came too fast and we didn’t have snow until today and then it melted. I’m not ready to take trees down. I love the twinkle lights. Normally it would all down and I’d be over it by now. Different this year I will leave it up another week. Plus I’m too tired to do it. lol😊
No, I haven't started taking down my Christmas items yet. But like you said room by room and I'm probably start with the bathroom. There is a lady on TH-cam who makes a lot of bread and I follow her, so far so good. I'm creating a cookbook binder, unfortunately, I have none of my mother's recipes and she passed away in 2018 and was an AMAZING cook. However, I'm learning and it will be the year of knowledge so I'm excited. I can't have a garden since I'm an apartment so I"'m going to the local farmers market this coming year and I' 'm supporting more local shops. Half Price Books is a local bookstore that I'm sure you are familiar with, so I will adventure off there for some old cookbooks. Peppi (sp) Hi Happy Holidays to you cutie, plus all your brothers and sisters (chickens, cats).
Love all your videos... Where did you get your black dining table... I am looking for a round black table that seats 6 and I love yours....Thank you! Oh, Christmas Deco comes down Jan. 1st...
I make a country sour dough bread by Chad Robertson of the Tartine Bakery in SF. I used his recipe for making the starter, it is time consuming but for me it's worth it. 💕
I really enjoy your videos Lauren! I already started taking decor down this morning. By Sunday, the tree will be gone. I put the tree up after Thanksgiving and take it down before New Year's. I decorate minimally so it's not so bad but I'm already over it😆
I've had my house decorated since the end of Oct. so I will take everything down tomorrow. Once the presents are gone under the tree, I want my tree DOWN. When my kids were sm. one yr. I took everything down Christmas night. We had a real tree and there were spiders and they had webs all over. I didn't have much décor then, as I do now.
I barely got my Christmas tree decorated a few days before Christmas because my work schedule has been so busy, but I already want to take it down, just not sure I have the energy. But, I already told you all this via text, just wanted to leave a comment to support. Love you!
Thank you Lauren, wonderful video! I keep thinking you would like This Golden Hour youtube channel. She is a lovely mother of four and cooks from scratch. She also has a bountiful garden! She will definitely get you set up with the sourdough recipes. Enjoy!
I leave Christmas up until the end of January. I love to sit and look at it so I’m not in any hurry to put it away.
Super Bowl is my day to take everything down.
I took. Christmas all down today. I can’t stand all of the clutter and it feels like the house is closing in on me. I like to go into the New Year all fresh and deep cleaned. ❤
Hi Lauren. I already started taking my decor down. I am doing it little at a time. I staged a table with boxes and everything will goback into the garage pre organized. I am giving myself until New Years eve to get it all down. Like you, I get a little down removing the decor but so far I am not feeling that drag. Merry Christmas to all the viewers & Lauren please keep up the content. You are like chicken soup to the soul.
As for Xmas decor- I am also catholic so I always wait till after the epiphany. But now I moved from Hawaii to a much colder place ( northern VA). I plan to leave it till later January to keep so lit. I will even cut fresh cedar and spruce from my woods to redo my garland.
Merry Christmas again Lauren to you and your beautiful family, I decided to keep our decorations up until three Kings day, which is January 6, then sadly it all gets put away till next year. Wishing you a happy wonderful new year. ❤🎉
My trees turn into Valentine trees. My twins asked when they were in middle school if I could take trees down before Valentines Day.....(It really wasn't that bad)....but, I decided family tree of photos and hearts was my tradition for Valentines Day....I am a heart girl, makes me smile, and others shake they heads. ❤❤❤❤
That's a great idea.....
I leave my Christmas up until New Year's Day and then take it down. It takes too long to put it up, so I am going to enjoy it, besides I love to sit at night and look at the lights, I love it!
Hi Lauren, I Will defenetly keep my décorations until mid january. That how its always been in my family and I love the tradition.❤🎄🎅🤶🧑🎄
Woukd be glad to see you undecorating! Will be such a needed motivation!
Thank you for the great recipes; as a working mom myself, I’m grateful for them. Also for the encouragement to have formal dinners together. It’s such a luxury and blessing ❤
I enjoy our Christmas decor very much but on December 26th I start taking it down. Even though it is beautiful, I can't handle all the extra clutter too long and like to start the New Year with a clean slate. The entire month of January is spent deep cleaning, purging and decluttering. It just gives me peace of mind.
You are such a good wife and mother, Happy Holidays ❤
One of my favorite videos in a long time. 🫶🏻
I will leave everything up until the end of January this year. I love the lights and don’t like how cold and gloomy winter is so this just makes it so nice for a bit longer , reading a book by my Christmas tree is priceless 💖
Hi Lauren! I definitely want to make that creamed spinach/squash soup, yum! I leave my decor up until early February. It is very cold and wintery here in New England and like to enjoy the snowy nights by the soft lights. I go right from winter decor to Easter! ❤
I love your videos, So calming ❤
This video was incredible. It was so inspiring for me to make more of an effort to up my cooking game in the new year. I ordered the unapologetic cookbook and can’t wait to try new recipes and cook more from scratch. Thanks for sharing!
All the food looks very yummy especially the salad. Christmas decor stays up until new years.
Hi Lauren I tried your mushroom leek soup recipe today..and OMG it is so good..and so simple to make..thank you..you have great taste in recipes..and also your tortilla soup was awesome
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it!
You should try her chicken pot pie..oh it's to die for absolutely delicious highly recommend
Merry Christmas Lauren we celebrate” little Christmas “ so we can enjoy more🥰
My decorations stay up through the New Year as my birthday is January 2nd and I love the atmosphere!!
Lovely video. Your food looks delicious.Your home is warm and cozy.
I started taking everything down today. I always put all the decor in the dining room and then dust all the furniture. Tomorrow, I will put everything into containers and store them away. The house looks so empty but I love it. I've made sourdough bread before, but it was years ago. I remember it was really good. Great video!
The food looks good.
Your hands are lovely.❤
Seems like you just put up the Christmas decorations and now it is almost time to take them down. This holiday seemed to go by so fast this year.
It really does!
I love making homemade bagels! They are quite easy and take about one hr and 15 min (that's with 30 min of it rising)
2 cups warm water (110°F)
3 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons active dry yeast
6 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda (for the boiling water)
Toopings of your choice (aged Parmesan, flaked sea salt, everything bagel seasoning, cheddar cheese, etc)
In the bowl of a stand mixer add your warm water sugar and yeast let sit 5 minutes to become bubbly and activated. Add half of the flour & mix in your stand mixer with the dough hook attachment. Add your salt and the rest of the flour, gradually 1 cup at a time. Let knead in your stand mixer for 5 minutes on the medium low speed. Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl with a clean kitchen towel over to cover. Let stand in a warm place until doubled in size. In the mean time, get a deep saute pan or wide pot filled with water about halfway. You want to be able to boil about four bagels at a time so about that width. Bring water to a GENTLE boil. Preheat oven to 400°F. Portion dough into 12 equal portions. Roll into balls. Place finger in the middle of the ball stretching gently to make a bagel shape with a hole in the middle about an inch wide. Once your water is at a gentle boil add the 1 tsp of baking soda. This will bubble up, but go right back down. Gently place bagels into simmering water. BE CAREFUL not to splash yourself! Boil 25 seconds then carefully flip them over (i use chopsticks) boil another 25 seconds on the other side. Carefully take the bagels out with a slotted spatula and place on a cooling rack to drain. Place your drained bagels on a parchment lined baking sheet with about 2 inches spaced in-between. Top with whatever toppings you like! I notice if the bagels are slightly damp still on top the dry toppings stay on, but you could always use an egg wash. Bake the bagels at 400°F for 25 minutes. If you are using a heavy cheese they will take more like 30 minutes. The bagels will be a golden brown when ready. Start checking them at 20 min, everyone's oven cooks differently.
I love your videos. They're so inspiring. I'm going to declurater my Christmas decorations after the new year. 🎉. I wanna enjoy the magic until the last minute 😂❤❤❤
Happy new year 🎉. I’m keeping up my Christmas decor for a few weeks as winter is long & dreary here in Michigan 🥰 I’ll be looking & buying some new spring decor though!😉
Keep it up till after the New Year
Shred your own cheese the bagged ones have a powder to keep it fresh for months and the taste is off and it doesn’t melt the same. Once you shred your own you’ll taste the difference
The additive in shredded cheese it used to make yoga mats😲.
I normally leave my christmas decor up until after the 3 kings.
I take down anything Santa and Christmas related and leave up everything winterish like trees with just their lights garland and anything snowy. as I live in south Texas and winter begins in January
Happy Holidays Lauren, family, fur babies, and feathered friends. How are you doing Lauren, I pray all is well with your soul. Thanks so much for sharing all the NEW you are learning. Going to begin slowly but surely taking Christmas down before the NEW YEAR! STTB 🎄
Lauren your a super star in the kitchen for sure 🤩
Lunch and supper look great !,
A French toast bake would be perfect with that bread. I can’t wait to try it next week.
Merry Christmas Lauren and family and animals!
all the food looks so good! I will have to try both recipes! our family adores acorn squash! It is so sweet! most of the winter squash we like, summer squash, probably only butternut and zucchini! usually, I keep our decorations up until after new years, but I started taking some down today, I think I will leave the trees up, but everything else I am putting away. This year I really wasn't even in the mood to decorate! I have heard that alot from people this year, and I was no exception, I did put my stuff up, but it didn't bring me the joy it usually does! thanks so much for sharing! I love your videos! xoxo
I bet your decor looked beautiful.
I might put away some Christmas decor, but I’m still enjoying the lights and ambience at night. We will see how long it is until I want a clean slate. I still want to do more Christmas baking and enjoy Christmas season a little bit longer. 🩵🎄❄️☃️
Food looks yummy, Lauren. Hope you had a blessed Christmas. May the new year bring joy, peace and prosperity .
I'll leave mine up for awhile.
It changes year to year depending on what we have going on.
But generally into January, at least.
Both my granddaughters' birthdays are at the end of January, so we always enjoy the multiple trees as long as possible.
I started decorating my house on November 1st, but it's true, time seems to have passed so quickly.. too bad.. it's a truly magical period.. I'll keep my decorations for the first week of January... On January 6th we'll say goodbye to all this magic...
it makes me sad..
but at the same time, after months submerged by decorations
"I started the autumn decorations on August 1st"
I also want to see my house return to its natural style..
I hope there will be videos while you take down your decorations, and organize everything.. I really like them..
A kiss from Italy..
Best wishes for these holidays
Hi Lauren, we usually keep our Christmas decor up til after the new year. I do take it down before I go back to work.
You make cooking look so relaxing and easy. I cook some but not really anything fancy.
Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas. Have a wonderful evening and see you next time.
Me too I keep my Christmas tree up til after the new year
I like to keep my items up until New Year’s. Then down they go! (Except for a few light strands for the dark nights)
I’m happy you said Pepe’s name. I can only remember chewy. lol. I love those names. Merry Christmas! 🐶🎄
Ostatnio ulubionym chlebem jest chleb z kaszy gryczanej.👍
My birthday is in January so I leave my tree up until the end of January.
I have to tell you, I truly enjoyed this video. I think it was all the cooking and definitely the breadmaking. I’m going to try it myself. You’ve really stepped up your game with this one.
I started taking things down today. I like to do it slowly so it is put away in an organized manor. Last year I just threw my ornaments in a storage box, and of course a lot of them were broken. I learned my lesson!
Everything looks so yummy, there's nothing quite like homemade bread
I took my Christmas decorations down except for the tree, probably this Saturday.
Lauren! You can just make your own starter! So easy- Ive been doing sourdough a few months and if I can do it anyone can!
Some of the dishes you make look absolutely delicious.
If the bread sags in the middle after cooling, it's not done. I start by proofing my yeast. I also never use standard sugar. I use inulin. I have my moms cookbook which I will pass on to my daughter later on.
Hi Lauren Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family and your fur babies 🎄❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🐾
Thank you for a beautiful video you are a great cook you make a great food . I really the aprons you wear it's a habit i love have a good day 😊🎀💯🎀💯❤️
My Christmas tree and decorations come down the day after Christmas as I am always ready to get my home back in order. All of the food looks delicious.
When Thanksgiving is late, like it was this year and will be next year. The season seems to fly by. I prefer when Tday is early, the season is longer.
Keeping everything Christmas after New Years
In Finland the 6th of January is the ending of Christmas. In older days it was January 13th. So two days to choose from😄
I take mine down at the end of January or a little later. I just want to enjoy it longer.
Merry Christmas lauren to you and your family...i took down all my Christmas decor today and cleaned up and resetting for the New Year..❤ i make my own sour dough starter i personally think its easy to do from scratch...i also use self rising flour and make 2 ingredient biscuits and yeast rolls simple recipe
Keeping ours up till end of January to enjoy! Celebrating Christmas all the month of January! Never did that before, but a first time for everything! Of course we will take down the out door lights after Epiphany Jan.6th.
I’m keeping my decor up for a couple of weeks. Because Thanksgiving was a week later, I’m keeping it for a bit. I have a wonderful family recipe for French bread! 😋
It's so nice that you have your mom's recipe box ! Your handwriting is so similar to hers I would have thought you wrote them. ❤
This is what you do to get your hair to grow and you wont cut it and hate the grow out phase. Keep it up in a french twist or some sort of updo. I grew mine out my bob in 2 years. You look beautiful either way, but I know extensions can be a pain. ( unwanted advice I know, but hopefully someone can use it lol )
I appreciate you sharing your experience and advice!
Hi Lauren, I remember a video where you dehydrated your own vegetables and turned them into spices. Do you still do that?
I was so happy to see a video from you. Your soups looked so delicious and I love homemade bread. I am leaving my Christmas decorations up for awhile then I will take Christmas items away and do snowmen and a winter wonder land look.😊
You can easily make sourdough starter. I made mine over 10 years ago and it's still going strong. I have learned that sourdough is very easy. Don't believe all the "rules" you may read about it that scare most people off. It's very easy to use and maintain.
We are leaving Christmas up this year at least until after January 12. We have had a lot of sickness in our family this year with all of our grandchildren. We had to now spread out our Christmas celebrations until Jamnuary 12. I am sad that everyone was sick but happy to be able to leave up the tree an extra week or so to enjoy. Next year I start November 1st decorating so I can enjoy our home longer!
Your meals are like eating at a family friendly fine dining restaurant! Gonna try the lasagna soup!
When you made the comment that you were mad when you find things that you wanted to use? I had to stop what I was doing to say oh yes, we must get more organized this coming year And it does seem like a lot of times it’s with the linens Love watching you!
Yummy dinner❤
Thursday day morning woke up and started cleaning and packing all my Christmas away feels so good sad but needed to be done. We are leaving for our trip soon even the outside. My neighborhood will thank me for not leaving Christmas decorations for two months 😊.
Looked delicious! All of it. ❤
I really enjoyed this video!
I like to keep it up until my daughter starts school end of January. That way she goes to school with Xmas joy and comes home with it all put away. Ready for a fresh mindset and new focus.
I don’t want to stress her with the transition of putting it away.
Lauren, this was a great video. I really like the direction your channel is heading. I have made several of your recipes and each and every one of them have been delicious. I am going to make the acorn squash tomorrow it looks and sounds delicious, and the bread and soup this weekend. I have been making sourdough bread for a few years now; it is a process but so rewarding. You can make the starter which is very easy to do. I used the instructions from King Arthur's Sourdough Starter website. I use bread flour instead of what they suggested, but once you make the starter you can keep it going for years by feeding it. I also make great bagels using Joanna Gaines recipe. I will be slowly taking down the Christmas decorations, I love them, but I also like less things around me. Thank you for the recipes and I look forward to your new channel direction. Have a wonderful weekend and Happy New Year!
My stuff comes down this weekend.
Hi Lauren, could you provide you bread and salad recipe? I'm really looking forward to making these food for my family. ❤
I managed Cinnabon in Santa Rosa Mall when it was a scratch bakery. We made all the dough. I would take the buns, cut sideswipe and make French toast..Awesome..Also cinnabon bread pudding was a hit❤❤...
It felt like Christmas came too fast and we didn’t have snow until today and then it melted. I’m not ready to take trees down. I love the twinkle lights. Normally it would all down and I’d be over it by now. Different this year I will leave it up another week. Plus I’m too tired to do it. lol😊
Where are your sweater, jeans, and slippers from? 😆😆😆😆 Thanks! God bless.
That looks so good.
No, I haven't started taking down my Christmas items yet. But like you said room by room and I'm probably start with the bathroom. There is a lady on TH-cam who makes a lot of bread and I follow her, so far so good. I'm creating a cookbook binder, unfortunately, I have none of my mother's recipes and she passed away in 2018 and was an AMAZING cook. However, I'm learning and it will be the year of knowledge so I'm excited. I can't have a garden since I'm an apartment so I"'m going to the local farmers market this coming year and I' 'm supporting more local shops. Half Price Books is a local bookstore that I'm sure you are familiar with, so I will adventure off there for some old cookbooks. Peppi (sp) Hi Happy Holidays to you cutie, plus all your brothers and sisters (chickens, cats).
I've never noticed your heat lamp above the stove. I need one of these! Do you know the brand? 😍
That looks delicious ❤
Love all your videos... Where did you get your black dining table... I am looking for a round black table that seats 6 and I love yours....Thank you! Oh, Christmas Deco comes down Jan. 1st...
I make a country sour dough bread by Chad Robertson of the Tartine Bakery in SF. I used his recipe for making the starter, it is time consuming but for me it's worth it. 💕
I really enjoy your videos Lauren! I already started taking decor down this morning. By Sunday, the tree will be gone. I put the tree up after Thanksgiving and take it down before New Year's. I decorate minimally so it's not so bad but I'm already over it😆
I'm with you - I'm already ready for January!
Hi Lauren ❤
Starting to take down Christmas Room By Room.
I've had my house decorated since the end of Oct. so I will take everything down tomorrow. Once the presents are gone under the tree, I want my tree DOWN. When my kids were sm. one yr. I took everything down Christmas night. We had a real tree and there were spiders and they had webs all over. I didn't have much décor then, as I do now.
Mine decor will be up for awhile. Recovering from surgery so it may be up for awhile
I barely got my Christmas tree decorated a few days before Christmas because my work schedule has been so busy, but I already want to take it down, just not sure I have the energy. But, I already told you all this via text, just wanted to leave a comment to support. Love you!
Xmas decor is down and New Year's decor is up. I wasted no time! 😅😅😅
Thank you Lauren, wonderful video! I keep thinking you would like This Golden Hour youtube channel. She is a lovely mother of four and cooks from scratch. She also has a bountiful garden! She will definitely get you set up with the sourdough recipes. Enjoy!
❤❤❤🐾🐾🙏🥰
🥰🥰
❤❤❤