Got Through Christmas

I made it through Christmas and for the most part all was good. Once again I did lots of baking and chocolate candy dipping to fill 16 boxes of goodies (all different size packages), but I enjoy it!

My brother got me a pink Daisy bebe gun for Christmas, I wanted a pink rifle, but he said I have to work up to that. What I don't get is I have shoot gun so how did I go done to a bebe gun, lol. Well he bought a bebe gun for his son and saw the pink one and thought of me, awwww. My nephew wants us to go shooting together now, I think I will have to do that sometime soon. Got other fun, pink and useful gifts. Of course enjoyed giving what I had found and made.


I also enjoy Christmas movies and music and this year it was so much nicer having the box on my tv that plays Vudu.com, Netfilx and Pandora to enjoy all of them. Played music when in the kitchen working and watched a number of Christmas movies new and old (or new to me).

Now looking into the new year ahead, no plans for New Years Eve, hopefully that will change soon. But have some goals for the new year... right now my big goal is to do some updates and sprucing up around my house. Some little things that I don't think will cost to much or be too hard, hope to make them winter projects. I have started a board on Pinterest.com to keep track of some of my thoughts for things to do. Want to start with my back porch/laundry room, thinking add some hooks and shelves then paint and maybe new flouring. Think I will work my way forward through the house from there... a lot of these are things I have wanted to do since I moved in but was not able and I hope they will help when I go to sale it some day. I can't wait to start and share what I do.

I have some other small goals for 2012, but save those for another time!

None Stop Dec.

Of course since Thanksgiving I have been very busy and very on the go. I have some place to be almost every night and the nights I don't I am at home baking, working on photo orders or Christmas Cards. But I do enjoy this time of year for the good and fun things.

Like getting a Christmas tree, got mine a few weeks back, went to a different farm and got a tree for $25. I have never paid less then $40 for a live tree, so I was very happy, there wasn't a lot to pick from but for that price I was sure to find one. Got it home and it is nice and fat (almost too fat). It took over a week to get it all decorated but with some help it is all done now.

Speaking of Christmas decoration I had a nice scare when I went to get my decoration out of my basement. In the middle room of my basement you have to go through the room to turn the like on and there is a ledge with crawl space on both sides. Well when I turned the light on I saw something move and when I turned to look I was face to face with eyes! There was a cat in my basement, have no idea how it go there, how long it has been there and at that point how to get it out. Once I got calmed down from the initial scare and shock I went back down to look for it and couldn't find it, so my guess is it went in the crawl space where I couldn't get it. I couldn't stop thinking about it and the nice messes it was leaving me down there. Third time I went down it was back out and so I tried to pet it and it didn't try to scratch my eyes out. So, I cared up stairs to put it out and it got loose from me and that lead to me and cat running through my house (probably could have made it on funnest video). Finally got the cat out and felt so much better.

A few days later I took the empty decoration boxes back the basement, as I entered each room I looked around hoping to not see anything. No such luck, when I entered the back room there was eyes reflecting back at me. So until I can figure out where it is getting in I left it. I have also put a post in the paper for lost cat and hope to find it a home soon. I don't know but the thing has me creeped out and don't want to go to my basement, witch is stupid it is just a cat (I hope that is all that is down there).

Beside dealing with the cat I have been baking lots of cookies as I do this time of year, very much enjoying having a dishwasher now. Also have been enjoying watch movies on my tv through Netflix and Vudu. Watched The Help on Vudu this Saturday and it was very good, definitely recommend it.

Pictures of my Christmas goodies and bake goodies to come soon. Can't believe Christmas is only six days way... I wander if I will get what I truly want... Praying to God for the guidance to it.