I love blogging. I think of a million things a day I could blog about. Then I talk myself out of it because I think I have to blog about something profound every time. Well, good grief, anyone who knows me knows I'm a total dork who is rarely serious. I can't always enlighten you with my deep philosophical knowledge. At this point, you are probably wondering when I've ever done that to begin with. LOL! Anyway...
It's almost Christmas. 16 days to be exact. Are you ready? We are most definitely not ready. We don't even have our tree yet, and that is tragic! But by Sunday night, we will have a tree if I have to go cut one off the side of the road. We have 3 Christmas parties this weekend, but that's not going to stop us. We are on a mission.
This week I've been planning our holiday baking (haven't started that yet, either, oops!). I ALWAYS bake Snickerdoodles. I'm kinda famous for those. I'm going to bake biscotti for the first time. My friend, Arlene, gave me some great recipes. I think I'll do some apple pies (Emma's favorite). Maybe some turnovers and bread. Okay, I'm getting carried away. I don't have time for all that. We always make some fun candy like haystacks, oreo balls, and chocolate dipped pretzels. YUMMY!
We'll probably take the last week before Christmas off from school to have some good Christmas crafting fun! We went shopping today to get the supplies. We are going to do
button ornaments,
cinnamon ornaments,
glitter balls, maybe
jingle bell wreaths, and if we get really ambitious, we will do these
Christmas lanterns. I think we'll make little toy soldiers from old wooden clothespins and make thumbprint "snowmen" on solid colored Christmas balls. That doesn't count the gingerbread house we always do (yeah that comes from a box, I don't bake the gingerbread!). Whew! That's a lot. But they love it, and I love it (usually), so we do it. :D And on December 26th, don't even think about asking me how much of this I actually got done. ;)
By the way, Diesel comes home Monday. :)
We'll wrap up some treats, some ornaments, and a family photo and that will be the Christmas gifts for everyone. Home made gifts make the BEST gifts!
So, now is there any question of why I can't find time to blog every day or every other day or even once a week? I always over plan and double book and squeeze a million things into every day. That's just how I roll. And I rock! LOL! <3
Blessings,
Nakia