Updates

I just finished wrapping all the stuff I have. I remembered that I have an order at my parents' house though. I'll deal with that soon and then I'm completely done. We started watching our large collection of Christmas movies last weekend. So far we've seen "It's a wonderful life", "Family Man" and "The Grinch" movie. This weekend we'll see "Christmas Vacation" and maybe one more depending on time. I will be freecycling the little bit of Christmas decorations I decided I could part with this year and I'll also be freecycling my Mom and Aunt's cast aways too. Even a pre-lit tree! We played A Charlie Brown christmas game last night and we started to put together my Christmas cookie puzzle. I'll share those pictures when it's finished.

Turkey and Reindeer

Thanksgiving was nice. The turkey soup is excellent this year. So much flavor. It really is the best part of Thanksgiving. As far as Rudolph day, I am doing awesome this year. Hubby is picking up the last 2 things we need to finish both of our parents' presents tonight. I will be officially done buying gifts, he's a totally different story, but that's him. After this post I am going to finish wrapping everything I have so that will be finished today too. I spent 2 and a half days decorating for Christmas, starting Thanksgiving night with the tree, per tradition.

The lattice gate you see around the tree is the only way we have found to keep certain cats from eating the tree like it's some fish feast. It's a little warped this year, I will have to find a better way to store it next year, but it still works.



Notice the cross stitch I finally finished hanging proudly above the fireplace.

Here is part of the village since I can't get the whole thing in one picture. I bought a new table this year to put it on that has an extra foot of space. That and my Aunt giving me extra walls, allowed a much bigger park area than before.

Holiday Plans

I've made some progress in the past couple of weeks. I bought all of my stocking stuffers and I have wrapped half of them so far. I have purchased some gift cards on my list. I still have some gift cards left to get, but that's about it. I will make one more Amazon order, but some of that stuff will be for next year gifts. I finished making out all of my Christmas cards, so I just have to drop them in the mail when it's time. Today I went grocery shopping and I bought all the stuff needed for Thanksgiving and Christmas desserts. I forgot to buy my small frozen turkey though. I need that for my turkey soup come Spring so I hope they have some next week when I go. I also put up my Winter snowflake and snowmen curtains in the two bathrooms. It's a little early, but it's one less thing to do when it's time to decorate for Christmas. I also put the solar Christmas lights on the bush by the garage the other day when the weather was super nice and mild. I haven't turned them on yet, but after Thanksgiving we just have to flip the switch on and they will start lighting up at night by themselves.

New Door Knobs

So after seeing the bronze and silver door knobs on house shows on HGTV, I decided they looked much nicer than the brass looking ones we currently had/have. We replaced all the knobs on the first floor this weekend. I think they look much nicer and fancier than the old ones.

No More Shop Vac

Yay! Finally, we got our sump pump installed so no more standing with the shop vac in the Spring when the rain goes on for weeks and floods the basement.

Gobble Gobble!

Here's a little picture of some Thanksgiving decorations. I don't have too many, but I add them to the Fall decorations so the house is still fully decorated.

Rudolph Day

I'm a little late on October's Rudolph day because we were on vacation and I really didn't do anything Christmas related this past week. I did pick up a few gift parts this month. I need to get stocking stuffers which I hope to do this month and then I need one more wrapping session and I should be all set. I still have to pick up a ton of gift cards, but I've started getting them here and there. All in all I think I'm on schedule to be ready for Christmas by the end of this month. Today I've put away Halloween decorations and I'll be putting out Thanksgiving stuff later. Maybe I'll put up some pictures later. Oh I did buy a new table for my Christmas village to go on. It's a 6 ft plastic one that folds in half. It's much lighter than the MDF one we use now, plus that one has some water damage from the Spring flooding in the basement.