Christmas Countdown - 2015

[snowflake22]

Good afternoon, MMC~

Hope you're staying warm!

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[made582]

Good Tuesday morning, my Christmas friends!

I delivered our sofa & loveseat to my cousin and her husband yesterday afternoon. Our new furniture won't arrive until tomorrow, but rain was predicted for today, so I had to make the move early. I sat on the family room floor for about 30 minutes last night, then finally gave up and watched TV in the bedroom. I'm too old to sit on the floor; my old back won't take it!

Jim is determined to crank the Camaro this week, even though we don't have a windshield, or exhaust, or any of the interior done...or even tires! LOL He was working on it late last night, but I couldn't stay to help. I plan to record the first crank and post it on Youtube, to save it for posterity.

I hope y'all have a great day!

Hope you can get the camaro running and that the new furniture arrives on time tomorrow!!!!

Have a great day, Brad!!1

We have decided to stay in today and go hiking tomorrow. The fire place feels too warm to get out today! It is suppose to snow again tomorrow 2 to 4 inches but we will see! We are going home Thursday so I only have to work Friday! It does not get much better than that!

Sounds like the smart idea!!! Hope you can get out tomorrow and enjoy the mountians!!

The antibiotics didn't help Lulu, so the vet did an x-ray this morning and found some large bladder stones. She has to have surgery tomorrow.

I'd appreciate prayers for Lulu's safe surgery & recovery.

Thanks!

My prayers are on the way, Brad.

Good afternoon gang ... woke up at 5 am to phone call saying the schools were closed. Kids and I got a snow day while the hubby had to go to work.

Got a pot of venison stew going in the crock pot and going to make cookies with the kids this afternoon. The snow is light and powdery so no making snowmen or having a snowball fight. Really wish we had this back at Christmas time though. Maybe it would have felt more like Christmas. Was so disorganized and behind on shopping and decorating it just didn't feel like Christmas.

Trying to stay a head of the things this year already got a few gifts for the kids and have started working on some personalized gifts. Goal is to be done shopping for wrap-able gifts by Dec 1st and start my wrapping the 1st weekend on Nov. Have several gifts figure out, just need to budget for those.

I keep telling my self I need to stop in here every day but some days there is just not enough hours in the day. Another goal to keep working at :grin:

Hope everyone has a great day and is staying warm.

Enjoy your snow day, Minta!!!! I want to be more prepared this year too but right now things are to much in the air as to what all is going to happen. So it's making it hard to plan.

I have to mention---today's the day before Ash Wednesday. Where I grew up, that was the day for buying and eating kinklings, a pastry that I really, really miss. It's practically unknown anywhere else.

Happy Kinkling Day, wherever you are!

Happy Kinkling Day, MerryCarey!!!

Stay warm, and have fun!!

Xx

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Thanks, Buddy!!! I'm trying!!!!

xx

Thanks!

Hope you feel better!

Xx

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Thanks, Friend!!! Doing a bit better this afternoon.

xx

 

[made582]

Good afternoon, MMC~

Hope you're staying warm!

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Good Afternoon, Buddy!!!! Hope you are staying warm too!!! Love the pic!!!

 

[Minta]

I get what you mean about not feeling like Christmas not that it didn't for us but wasn't quite the same. My husband and I had a wonderful Christmas but it felt like we missed out on some little things that we normally do every December. It is because we took off out of town the day after Thanksgiving for 2 weeks in Maryland and New York City. Wonderful Christmasy vacation for sure but the fact that Thanksgiving felt way too rushed was part 1 of our usual Christmas festivities. I felt as though we were rushing through Thanksgiving (one of my favorite days of the year), get the house cleaned up, finish packing and be up by 4 am the next morning. We usually have big Christmas plans for 2 straight days after Thanksgiving but missed out on that. Then we get back from being gone 2 weeks and tried to cram in as much hometown activities that we could before Christmas Day arrived, also just getting ready for the day - wrapping, cooking and more. Not complaining about the vacation, what a luxury and got to see the tree at the Rockefeller Center, just rather not be gone that long next time around. I also missed my Christmas tree and my own decorations! We also have Christmas outings with the grandkids every year and felt very sad that we never got to do that this past Christmas because things were just a bit too rushed by the time we came home.

Well, my hubby put in his week vacation for December 2015 already and we will stay home and take in the festivities and make sure we have our Christmas outings with the grandkids! If we do go out of town it will be an overnight or 2 day trip somewhere close by. I am already excited and looking forward to it!

Christmas 2014 was great and wonderful memories were made but we both agreed we just don't want to be gone that long in December again.

Just like my favorite Perry Como Christmas song, "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays"!!!

Congrats on getting some gifts bought already!

Yeah now that I think about it ... it all did start with Thanksgiving. DH and I normally go to a local winery to get our holiday wines right before Thanksgiving but didn't have time to do that this year. BF shopping was stressful this year as we didn't have as much shopping done as we normally do by BF. Our outside Christmas decorating was simpler this year as we lost all our inflatables and didn't have it in the budget to buy more. The first Saturday of Dec we go with extended family to a local Christmas Parade but missed that this year as it was raining and one of our kids had just gotten over being sick. Other things were rushed. This year I am trying to get as much shopping/wrapping done as early as possible so we can enjoy the season doing more fun activities, also going to incorporate some more homemade gifts too.

I hope this Christmas feels more like Christmas for you CAH.

 

[snowflake22]

Hope you can get the camaro running and that the new furniture arrives on time tomorrow!!!!



Have a great day, Brad!!1







Sounds like the smart idea!!! Hope you can get out tomorrow and enjoy the mountians!!







My prayers are on the way, Brad.







Enjoy your snow day, Minta!!!! I want to be more prepared this year too but right now things are to much in the air as to what all is going to happen. So it's making it hard to plan.







Happy Kinkling Day, MerryCarey!!!







Thanks, Buddy!!! I'm trying!!!!



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Thanks, Friend!!! Doing a bit better this afternoon.



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Glad to hear it [emoji169]
Prayers, buddy!

Xx




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[snowflake22]

Good Afternoon, Buddy!!!! Hope you are staying warm too!!! Love the pic!!!

Thanks, trying to =]
Breezy here again.

It is beautiful! Drift-less area here in Wisconsin.




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[Christmas-A-Holic]

MerryCarey, never heard of kinklings - looks delish!

 

[made582]

Glad to hear it [emoji169]
Prayers, buddy!

Xx

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Thanks, Buddy!!!

xx

Thanks, trying to =]
Breezy here again.

It is beautiful! Drift-less area here in Wisconsin.

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Sorry, Buddy!!! I hope it dies off soon!!!!

xx

 

[made582]

Why didn't I think of this?!?!



If they can use the jet dryers from the Charlotte track to melt the ice on the runways at the Concord airport, why can't i use one to melt the snow here? So long to shoveling!!!!!

 

[snowflake22]

Thanks, Buddy!!! [emoji172]



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Sorry, Buddy!!! I hope it dies off soon!!!!



xx

Thank you!

Oh well, it's Winter in Wisconsin! To be expected. [emoji301]️[emoji300]️[emoji4]




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[snowflake22]

Why didn't I think of this?!?!



If they can use the jet dryers from the Charlotte track to melt the ice on the runways at the Concord airport, why can't i use one to melt the snow here? So long to shoveling!!!!! í*½í¸‚

There you go! [emoji300]️[emoji106]




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[HomemakinGirl]

Stay safe & enjoy the pretty snow!!

That was very sweet of your husband to get you a new phone!

Keeping Sophia & Rosie in my thoughts & prayers today. Please give them hugs for me [emoji175]

Xo

Thank you so much!
xo

That really is something to see. I'd love to visit the memorial, too, but it's too far from here.

I just noticed that you're in Long Island. Our plant is manufacturing more poles to be delivered to PSE&G - LIPA as we speak. It really is a small world!

We went to the 9/11 Memorial the first year it opened, the museum was not opened at the time. We got very emotional too! When we were in New York this past December we wanted to go to the museum but just ran out of time. I hope you are enjoying yourself!

Brad, it really is a small world.

I want to go to the museum but I don't know if I would make it through. We know someone that had to leave, it was just too overwhelming. :-(

The antibiotics didn't help Lulu, so the vet did an x-ray this morning and found some large bladder stones. She has to have surgery tomorrow.

I'd appreciate prayers for Lulu's safe surgery & recovery.

Thanks!

I will be praying for Lulu. Sending hugs your way.

 

[gabulldawg]

Well I just did something I have never done before, that is fall asleep standing up. I was watching the tv and next thing I know Im falling down on the floor because I checked out while watching the news! I am so tired , I don't know if I am catching a bug or what. I need to lay down I guess, but that is so hard to do when you are on vacation, I feel like I need to be out doing something!!!!!
Well I may as well lay down before I fall asleep while typing here! ttyl!

 

[HomemakinGirl]

Good afternoon, MMC~

Hope you're staying warm!

Good afternoon Snowflake!
I hope you're staying warm as well!
Hope you're having a nice day so far!
xx

Praying all goes well for Sophia and Rosie!!! Stay safe taking them to the vets!!!!

That was very sweet of your husband!!! Hope you enjoy the new phone!!!

Have a great day, HMG!!!

Thank you Made, hope you're day is going well! :-D

 

[HomemakinGirl]

Well I just did something I have never done before, that is fall asleep standing up. I was watching the tv and next thing I know Im falling down on the floor because I checked out while watching the news! I am so tired , I don't know if I am catching a bug or what. I need to lay down I guess, but that is so hard to do when you are on vacation, I feel like I need to be out doing something!!!!!
Well I may as well lay down before I fall asleep while typing here! ttyl!

Hope you're not catching a bug and feel better after a nap!!!

 

[gabulldawg]

Hope you're not catching a bug and feel better after a nap!!!

Thanks! I am about to bundle up and rest up the rest of the day because tomorrow we are hiking a mountain!

 

[made582]

Well I just did something I have never done before, that is fall asleep standing up. I was watching the tv and next thing I know Im falling down on the floor because I checked out while watching the news! I am so tired , I don't know if I am catching a bug or what. I need to lay down I guess, but that is so hard to do when you are on vacation, I feel like I need to be out doing something!!!!!
Well I may as well lay down before I fall asleep while typing here! ttyl!

Hope you feel better after a nap, Dawg!!!!!

There you go! [emoji300]️[emoji106]

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I just need to find me a jet engine laying around somewhere!!!! LOL!!!!!!

 

[sugar142286]

Good Morning, friends~

I need coffee!

Have a blessed day!

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Good afternoon, Snowflake! Hope you're having a great day!


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[HomemakinGirl]

Thanks! I am about to bundle up and rest up the rest of the day because tomorrow we are hiking a mountain!

Hope you get plenty of rest. Have fun tomorrow!

 

[sugar142286]

Merry Tuesday!! Happy Pancake Day!

The children and I made pancakes for breakfast along with banana smoothies and we will have desert pancakes after our dinner tonight

Have a good day and hope you enjoy some pancakes today if you celebrate the tradition!

Happy Pancake Day, Festive! DH said he made the kids pancakes too!

Hope you're having a great day!


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