Murli playing next to the tree💗 She does everything next to, or under the Christmas tree😹 No matter if it’s cleaning her fur, playing or just rolling around on the floor, she specifically goes to the tree😸 She will miss that tree once it’s gone… We’ll keep it as long as it’s possible, just so she can enjoy it more😸💞🎄💞
The church right near us, has typical traditional Christmas decorations on their trees. It’s very simple, but it’s just like people decorated their trees in many regions of Austria for hundreds of years. Today, it’s mainly found in churches and rural areas. Ever since the Victorian era, people started to have more colorful decorations.
I’m loving colorful baubles and ornaments on my tree at home, but I do like to look at the traditional ones too. Thought I’d share
Traditional Austrian Christmas trees and decoration
Straw star, typical for Styria and other Austrian regions.
Straw stars, typical for Styria and other Austrian regions.
The nativity scene, it’s called “Krippe” in German
I was thinking about how I could possibly wish everyone I got to know in theses past months on blogs, Twitter and Instagram, merry Christmas! So many absolutely lovely and kind humans and their furkids Murli and I made new friends with.
So glad we found all of you, and you found us. The cat & animal community must be one of the kindest and welcoming community on the internet. You really bring light, love and kindness into a currently quite sad and dark world.
Murli and I wish all of you, on kittyblogs, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook a merry Christmas and wish you happiness, health and love for the coming new year.
Our Christmas eve was lovely! Papa and I had a delicious dinner! He cooks the most amazing things, it’s so good. It’s Papas thing, he absolutely loves cooking and baking. I had my vegetarian version of the dinner. Gosh it was so good. Of course Murli got treats and dinner at the same time as we had ours.
A bit later in the evening it was time for the gifts!
There are gifts for Papa, me and Murli under the tree. All checked out and approved by Murli! She helped me to wrap Papas gifts too!
Btw, it’s not just me who is a catperson, Papa is one too! Just as much as I am😸 The photo just turned out the way it did, because Murli decided to turn to look at the tree right in the moment the photo was taken lol! But who cares, it’s cute!
Murli when she got her present! She loves the little wooden balls! Racing all around the tree and living room with it the whole evening. She was so tired when we went to sleep from all that playing, that she fell asleep in an instant.
Yay!! Her typical play behavior! There’s always that look, where she turns her cute head this way and seems to think about something. Which is shortly before she goes all crazy. Tried to take pics, but they were blurry of course. (Should have filmed…)
And Murli was so happy with the wooden ball I got her (a couple of them). She loved it instantly after checking it out thouroghly. She was playing with it the rest of the evening, zooming around the tree and the living room. It was so funny!
After we opened our gifts… Murli was distracted from playing with her new toy, by the wrapping paper. For some reason, Murli was all over that blue paper!
I was and am so happy! It was just a beautiful and joyful evening. I wish the time wouldn’t be over so fast!
Murli and I wish you all a merry Christmas and happy Chanukka! Have lovely and blessed holidays!
The little angel my Mum loved so much.
One of my birds!!! Unfortunately, I was too late when I went back into the store where they had the mouses and kitties, cause they were gone. They didn’t have many of them. Sigh… Will be quicker next year, when I already know where to go!
Today around noon, Papa brought the tree! This year, we have a bigger tree again. Not up-to-the-ceiling-big but bigger than a table top tree, we also often have.
While Papa and I put up the tree in the evening, I had Murli hang out in another room and closed the door, so we could work without worrying about Murli running around between everything and so I can prepare the rest of the living room and get out the vacuum cleaner. Murli hates the vacuum, and panics as soon as she sees it. Therefore I always put her in another room, so she doesn’t have to worry about it.
When everything was done, I let her out again:
Right when Murli saw the tree the first timeThe tree! Not yet decorated, but pretty anyway. Murli is below the tree, but you can’t really see her lolNow from the other side! Checking all around the tree.Smells good!And she’s happy!!! Tree has been officially approved by Murli!Yay!!!
I will decorate it sometime tomorrow evening (Dec 23). Still have to run a couple of errands and get some groceries and take care of things that need to be done before the 24th. Will post again, probably late at night on the 23rd. Then with the pics from the decorated tree!