Another holiday week and back to work

Happy Monday everybody.  Hope everyone had a wonderful blessed Christmas.  I know that I did, and believe me I got way more than I deserved. (Thank you honey!)
I didn't intend on taking time off from blogging but I guess I did.  :)  I have been so busy enjoying my time off and  being with family that I  haven't had much computer time.  I hope to get back into the swing of things soon.  I am in the middle of making my list and goals for the new year. Do you make new years resolutions?  I sometimes do.  Last year I made one that I really wanted to do and I stuck to it.  I wanted to read my bible in a year and so I went to a online source www.bibleinayear.org and signed up. It made it easy to stick to it, and it was motivating. As of now I have today's reading and tomorrow's and I will have completed my last years resolution. Not sure what I want to do this year. But thinking it should most likely include fitness and getting healthy. There is also some new things I want to learn to do, I also want to update my web page and try to figure out what direction that should go in.

I am back at work this week, having the last five days off was nice, but I have Wednesday and Thursday off this week, and then the weekend will be coming shortly right after so I feel like it should be a good,short week. I am going to concentrate on putting away my Christmas decorations this week too.  Most likely any spare minute will be putting it all away.  Although I know it is going to take me a while to do it. Do you still have your decorations up?  If you have taken them down, when do you take them down.  Do you have to do it alone? or do you have help?  I seem to have to take most of mine down alone, although hubby is great about helping me get the boxes together and put back in place in the garage.  :)  But over the course of the next few days, I will start gathering my decorations around the house and make piles and then it is easier for me to pack back up. Plus it doesn't seem to take as long that way.  Not sure why, but it doesn't.  Guess when you break that big job up into little jobs it goes faster.

Over the next several days I am going to get back to my list making  and try to get my mind organized and cleared out for the new year. Is this a "me" thing or do you all do this too? 

Plan to get around for visits soon, but please let me say thanks for hanging in there with me over the last several months as I know my post have been sporadic.  One thing I plan to do in the new year is be a better blogger buddy. 

Gonna scoot, because as you can tell, my mind is jumbled and I feel as though I am just rambling.  Have a great afternoon!

Hugs!

A fun weekend!

Can you believe this week is gone too?  I can't believe that it is Friday already, but I am so happy.  I am looking forward to this weekend.  It is going to be a cold, dreary weekend from the reports that I have heard, but that is okay.  I plan to put on Christmas movies, and Christmas music and decorate my house.  Looking forward to putting our first Christmas together.  Just me and the hubby will be working on it tomorrow, but my goal is to get everything done except for the ornaments on the trees, and when the kids come over on Sunday they can do that?  I will take some pictures when it is all done and show you.

Not alot going on here so will keep this short.  Thought I would share this little game I got in a email.

1.) Wrapping paper or gift bag? Both, I love to wrap presents with pretty big bows, but use bags too.

2.) Real tree or artificial?  Artificial

3.) When do you put up the tree?   Day after Thanksgiving usually.  This year,this weekend

4.) When do you take the tree down?   January 1, usually

5.) Do you like eggnog? No

6.) Favorite gift received as a child? really not sure I liked all my presents!  :)

7.) Hardest person to buy for? My dad!

 8.) Easiest person to buy for? My mom

9.) Do you have a Nativity scene? Yes

10.) Mail or e-mail Christmas cards? both

11.) Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Can't seem to remember one

12.) Favorite Christmas movie.  Holiday Inn, Christmas in Connecticut, White Christmas, oh, was I only suppose to pick one.  hehe

13.) When do you start shopping for Christmas?  Oct.

14.) Have you ever recycled a Christmas gift? Yes

15.) Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?  My moms Christmas dinner

16.) Lights on the tree? Yes, as many as I can get on there.

17.) Favorite Christmas song?  Happy Birthday Mary

18.) Travel at Christmas or stay home? both, some years we travel, others we stay home

19.) Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Yes

20.) Angel on the tree top or a star?   Star

21.) Open presents Christmas morning? most of the time, now it revolves more around my kids schedule

22.) Most annoying thing about this time of the year? not enough time

23.) Favorite ornament, theme or color?  I love my primitive Christmas tree, just the simplicity of it.

 24.) Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham

25.) What do you want for this Christmas?  Time with my family


Have a great weekend.
Hugs!

Many thanks!

Let me start this by saying thank you for the nice comments, emails, that I received from this post. Believe me when I say that your thoughts and prayers were felt by not only me, but the whole family. The memorial service was simple beautiful.  We have been back home for a week and trying to settle back into our routines. It is taking time but we are getting there.  We were blessed with great weather while we were in Texas for the funeral.  On the morning that we  Betty was buried the  weather was 80 degrees and it was sunny.  A perfect day. It's still hard for me to believe that it's over.  Finally all her suffering is in the past.  I can't tell you how much that comforts us knowing she isn't in any more pain. So again, thank you!

We got our first snow here last night.  It didn't stick but while I was driving home from work it was snowing like crazy.  As I was driving in it, it was coming right at me.  I hate that.  Granted I don't like to drive in many weather conditions except sunshine, and don't like it if it blinds me.  :)  Our temps for the next 10 days is only suppose to get around the mid 30's.  Thinking it is time to throw another blanket on the bed, or cuddle up next to a fire.


I am trying to get myself psyched up for Christmas.  Not so much the holiday as I am all the work involved in decorating.  I am so behind this year.  I haven't really done any shopping or baking, nothing!  I have a partial shopping list made out but not sure when I am going to find the time to get it all done.  We are planning on putting our trees up this weekend.  Our plans are to head to Kentucky either Tuesday night or Wednesday for Thanksgiving. I am looking forward to being at my mommas.  Not to mention I will finally get to meet my little nephew Caleb. We actually will not be celebrating with our big meal until Friday, so no black Friday sales for me.  But if you want to check out some, the ads are already out there. Mom and I usually do some shopping that day but not this year.

I guess I should scoot for now, I will try to get back soon.  I hope you are all have a wonderfully blessed week so far.

Hugs!

Some of what I did this weekend.

Hi ladies,

Thought I would take a little time to tell you that I had very productive weekend, and now it is back to work for another week. I am so grateful for list, or I would never seem to make it. I did get about half of my chores done this weekend that I had on my list. We ( I should say Michael) got the bedroom painted and the ceiling fan hung. All the while I worked on more decorating,I did finally find one of the boxes that was missing. I know there is at least one more, but it isn't a big deal. Mainly the pumpkins which I use to sit around or put on my front porch display. So when I run across them I will finish up.

I also gave the kitchen a good clean last night. Michael in all his sweetness made enchilda's for dinner. Can you say yummy? and leftovers? Anyway, I digress, but after all his hard work in the kitchen I decided to do the clean up. I wiped down all the countertops, unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, cleaned out the fridge and did a wipe down, I also put some homemade vegtable soup I made (earlier in the week) in the freezer to have again at a later date, swept and mop the kitchen and family room floor. So felt like alot was accomplished in the kitchen.

Spent some time working on my holiday and prayer journals this weekend too. Needed to do some update. This is the third or fourth year that I have used the HOLIDAY GRAND PLAN and Christmas Countdown so needed to do some updating in those journals. This year I signed up for another little helper. Cara is hosting Holiday Countdown at The Household Helper. Hey with my schedule and anything that can keep me on task I need. Check it out.

Most of you would die if you knew that I have 429 subscriptions (as of this morning) in my google reader. I have them broke down into certain categories. It keeps me from missing out on anything new that is posted by some great bloggers. The ideas, tips, creativity of some of these women are amazing. I also have several blog helps in my reader, and I am loving it. Only problem is, it makes me want to change and update and move things around. But over the next little bit I want to share some of these wonderful finds with you.

Should close for now, will be back soon.
Hugs!

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Finally!

Good Morning all. I decided before I get to caught up in the day to drop a little note. I have been up for awhile but haven't really gotten started with my day. I have done some light cleaning this morning, and I have gathered piles of Christmas decorations all over the house. Plan to get them in containers today. Once that is done, it will be easier to focus on the trees and ornaments. That is always such a big job for me as I have alot of ornaments that I keep in there original boxes, so it take a while. Hoping I can get the kids to help.

This morning I am having some discomfort with my eyes. They are extremely dry and I am using ALOT of tear drops. That seems to help but doesn't last very long. So I might find that I have to take plenty of rest today to just close my eyes and rest them. But the vision is still good, I am not complaining by any means, I know that the dry eyes is a process that I have to endure during the healing process.

Not alot going on with me today other than getting my house back in order. The temps are warmer than yesterday and I think by tomorrow they are suppose to be near 60 or so. I look forward to that.

Well Michael is ready to help me so guess I should get with it. Hope you all have a wonderful blessed Sunday.