I have been crafting up a storm and the man has been baking cookies fresh for Thing 1's lunches... peanut butter oatmeal. Yum! Cookies make the house warm and it smells like the holidays already! Generally I am ALL about making room for Thanksgiving so it doesn't feel like the redheaded stepchild of the holiday season, but this year man, it just seems like we need the OOMPH into Christmas. Luckily for me, I have never had decorations for Thanksgiving and the stores decided to lump Halloween and Thanksgiving together this year. Amazingly enough, I now have Thanksgiving décor due to the storewide "fall" clearances that did the lumping together! Haha!
Ma and her man are doing well...we like him. He might be around for Thanksgiving... hope so... he's fun. It's going to be a small Thanksgiving this year, much like Christmas. I'm just glad I finished shopping already. I get to sit back and enjoy now. Generally, what we do is take the Friday after Thanksgiving to decorate like so many people I'm sure do. This year, I'm jumping the gun...and get this...at the request of Choners...he is usually VERY adamant about giving Turkey Day it's due. Well, this year, he wants his cake and he's going to eat it too... Next Monday, whether the big one goes to day care or not, we are doing our Christmas décor. It's something to pass the time and we might have Knott's plans on Saturday... but until that is certain I don't want to make any plans in stone. So I say, the general idea will be to get out the Christmas awesomeness for Monday... and if Thing 1 goes, she will come home to a winter wonderland in the house :) Also, I am planning on lights outside this year! Shhh, don't tell Mister...
This weekend is family weekend, we're gonna see a lot of his family :) I say his family, but they're really OUR family...It's funny, I just wanted to specify WHICH side of the family, mine or his... I could say The Brown side... But really, that doesn't help... us Irish have been known to have the fever. So both sides are relatively brown.. hehehe...
Tuesday is Christmas pictures... I have been saying, I want to make more image heavy posts, but I haven't yet. I think because I don't plan them THAT far ahead... so it's hard to do. Also, I love my camera. I love it SO much I'm afraid to leave the house with it... I know.. shut up... I got a filter for it to protect the lens so perhaps I would feel better about letting it bang around my back pack... wrapped in a scarf... and maybe a sweater.
Next years tax return already has a portion dedicated to my new lens. My cousin Ace is in "the business" and he helped me out HUGE on shopping around for my next lens purchase... And the more Choni is working on his film project the more I think he will probably want to use the Nikon for projects... A new lens wouldn't hurt! Ace said that my camera body and specs are great, I should be getting great results when I put the new lens on ...next year...
I am LOVING the weather...cold. I love cold. Snuggles, soup, hot cocoa, coffee NOT for my morning commute... aaaahhhh... Blankets on the couches... I LOVE blankets... kid snuggles... and when the decorations go up...the soft warm glow of the tree... oh yeah... that's the stuff....
Today is my last work day of November and I start my staycation... Thing 1 asked if I had any time off that overlapped HER time off...so I made some... cause sometimes, you just have to. I hope this allergy/cold thing goes away... Maybe with a little help from my friends Alka Seltzer and Nyquil...
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