Christmas Countdown - 2018

[He_Is_Born]

 

[Christmasstar]

November already ! Had about 30 kids last night. The weather was perfect for it. The loved seeing my son dressed as a 7 foot tall dinosaur, a few where scared but parents proved he was safe LOL
It is raining again today and looks like it will do so all day.
I am off work, but not entirely sure what I am doing as I still have to hear back from my daughter.
Hope you all have a great day !

 

[Crown 84]

Good Morning!

Welcome to the Merry Month of November.
The month of Thanksgiving and........
THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTMAS SEASON 2018!

The count just gets more and more exciting, as our Thanksgiving Day count number is added to replace Halloween:
Days to the Season: 12 (So close to SINGLE DIGITS, now!!)
Days to Thanksgiving: 21 (THREE WEEKS from TODAY!)
Days to Christmas Day: 54 (Moving in toward 7 1/2 weeks!)
(The tension just keeps building!)

Well, we surpassed the 70 degree mark yesterday and will do so again today and tomorrow before cooler temps return for the weekend. Tomorrow shows a pretty good shot at rain.
Currently, we are situated at 57 degrees here in central NC.

Have a Thrilling Thursday, all you Wonderful People!

 

[Edge612]

Good Morning!

Welcome to the Merry Month of November.
The month of Thanksgiving and........
THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTMAS SEASON 2018!

The count just gets more and more exciting, as our Thanksgiving Day count number is added to replace Halloween:
Days to the Season: 12 (So close to SINGLE DIGITS, now!!)
Days to Thanksgiving: 21 (THREE WEEKS from TODAY!)
Days to Christmas Day: 54 (Moving in toward 7 1/2 weeks!)
(The tension just keeps building!)

Well, we surpassed the 70 degree mark yesterday and will do so again today and tomorrow before cooler temps return for the weekend. Tomorrow shows a pretty good shot at rain.
Currently, we are situated at 57 degrees here in central NC.

Have a Thrilling Thursday, all you Wonderful People!

Thanks Crown! Happy November!

 

[Bradmac]

Good November first morning, Christmas friends!

As expected, we were swamped with trick-or-treaters last night. Nancy stayed in the hospital with her mother last night (she's improving), so Elizabeth and I handed out candy. So many little girls in princess costumes asked Elizabeth if she was Ariel!! They were in just in awe of being that close to the Ariel they saw on stage in July. So cute!

Off to my daily meeting. I hope y'all have a great day!

 

[SnowflakeMom]

Happy November!! Halloween was a success and my youngest has a full bag of candy. Just work for me today and my oldest won a conference award for soccer in Sportsmanship. We have a banquet tonight. So just work for me and I will be listening to some Christmas music today and the countdown to Thanksgiving begins! Hope you all have a great day!

 

[HomemakinGirl]

Good morning ~
Happy November!
I hope everyone had a Merry Halloween. We had about a dozen trick or treaters. We get less and less each year, I don’t understand why it so different now. When my kids were younger we had herds of kids walking around the neighborhood. Anyway, I don’t have too much going on. I have to run a couple of quick errands and then I’ll be working on the laundry. I plan on taking it easy after that, my husband has a cold and I feel like I’m getting sick now. I hope everyone is well and has a wonderful day!
xx

 

[HomemakinGirl]

Happy Halloween, Christmas friends!

As predicted, Nancy was not amused when she realized that our stealth carver left an empty liquor bottle as part of the scene of the vomiting pumpkin. Why couldn't they leave a full bottle? LOL!! Just kidding! She would kill me just for joking about that! We saw one of the local preachers last night, and he mentioned that someone pointed out our house to him yesterday. Nancy flipped out, thinking he might've seen the bottle on the front step. I assured her that you couldn't tell what it was from the road. Whew, dodged THAT bullet!

Elizabeth's play was a great, sold-out success! All of the kids gave a great performance, especially Elizabeth. The dinner was super, too. They have regional competition on Friday, then an encore Dessert Theater performance at school again next Thursday. Here she is on the porch that required all of my carpentry talents:

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I hope y'all have a spooky day!

I don’t know how I missed this post yesterday, Elizabeth looks beautiful!!! Great job on the porch Brad!!!

 

[made582]

Happy November 1st, MMC!!!!! Well we didn’t get any trick or treaters at all last night. My neighbors granddaughter didn’t even come over. My aunt got about 60 kids when she normally gets close to 200. So the rain definitely kept a lot of people at home. The rain continues today. So I’ll probably just stay home and pack up my fall decorations. Then I’ll start cleaning before Christmas starts making its way out this weekend. I hope everyone has a great day!!!

 

[MerryCarey]

Happy November Thursday!

I guess we had a dozen or so trick-or-treaters. We were over-prepared with the chocolate ... we never can predict how many will show up. When we cut back on buying candy, more kids show up!

Who else can hardly believe it's November? [raises hand] Somebody pull Time over for speeding! (Wait, that actually happens this weekend: clocks get set back as Daylight Saving ends, giving us one extra hour.)

 

[Martine]

Good Thursday morning! I’m working the afternoon/evening shift today so we’re running errands early this morning and David is getting a haircut. I was also up at 6am making the poster for our employees to vote on their favourite Halloween costume.

I just got my first Christmas magazine, I’m so excited now! I’m most looking forward to a week’s vacation starting November 17th so I can REALLY get into everything Christmas and decorate. Stores here are still not fully set-up for Christmas so I’m waiting to do my usual day of going from place to place to look at Christmas merchandise.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

 

[made582]

Happy Halloween! I worked until 4 and then we went out trick or treating. We were home by 7 which is pretty decent. Her pumpkin was so full I had to carry it in between houses. The candy is all put away and hidden. I'm just waiting for Carolina to fall asleep. I am flipping between Hocus Pocus and Hallmark now. Have a great day everyone!

It sounds like Carolina made out like a bandit!!

Good Halloween evening! A few employees dressed up today and I had an employee dress like in the 80s, like me. She's only 20 but spoke of watching 80s movies on VHS(!) with her father.

I had an interesting experience today. I was holding our Health and Safety committee meeting and November is a month to promote staying warm in cold temperatures. We have to find ways to promote the monthly theme and I suggested asking employees on a voluntary basis to bring in mittens and tuques to donate to a local school. One of the committee members thought that employees would not like to be asked for another contribution since the 13 stores in our district are already helping to put together a Christmas party for families in need, again all on a voluntary basis. The other two members present did not speak up to say otherwise. I didn't know there was a cap on generosity and good will. You can chose to donate to one activity and not the other. Anyway I didn't push it any further but I was disappointed to say the least. I'm getting to know our employees and what makes them tick (shrug).

Hope everyone has been enjoying Halloween and will get to enjoy some candy.

Well that’s a bummer that they weren’t willing to do one more donation drive. Especially when it wasn’t that expensive of one.

No trick-or-treaters. I guess I’m too far off the beaten track. Well, I was hoping for some and now I got a big ole bowl full of chocolate to get rid of some way, some how.

Tomorrow, it’s November 1st, it is my sons birthday and also the Christmas music will start playing on Sirius radio. We got an email today at work, about the office Christmas party in December. This is all so exciting. The season is upon us; Thank you God!

We were talking tonight about Christmas gift ideas and Christmas as a whole, it’s going to be exciting having our first Christmas in our home. We are definitely hanging stockings on the mantle for the kitties.

Happy birthday to your son!! Enjoy that chocolate!!

A fab night out trick or treating with the girls last night, by the time we got back most of the local kids had passed our street so only handed out a couple of goody bags!

Happy 1st of November! Another season almost here! Have a great day all!

Happy November, Claire!!

November already ! Had about 30 kids last night. The weather was perfect for it. The loved seeing my son dressed as a 7 foot tall dinosaur, a few where scared but parents proved he was safe LOL
It is raining again today and looks like it will do so all day.
I am off work, but not entirely sure what I am doing as I still have to hear back from my daughter.
Hope you all have a great day !

Have a good day at work, Star!!

Good Morning!

Welcome to the Merry Month of November.
The month of Thanksgiving and........
THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTMAS SEASON 2018!

The count just gets more and more exciting, as our Thanksgiving Day count number is added to replace Halloween:
Days to the Season: 12 (So close to SINGLE DIGITS, now!!)
Days to Thanksgiving: 21 (THREE WEEKS from TODAY!)
Days to Christmas Day: 54 (Moving in toward 7 1/2 weeks!)
(The tension just keeps building!)

Well, we surpassed the 70 degree mark yesterday and will do so again today and tomorrow before cooler temps return for the weekend. Tomorrow shows a pretty good shot at rain.
Currently, we are situated at 57 degrees here in central NC.

Have a Thrilling Thursday, all you Wonderful People!

Thanks, Crown!! Those numbers are getting scary!

Good November first morning, Christmas friends!

As expected, we were swamped with trick-or-treaters last night. Nancy stayed in the hospital with her mother last night (she's improving), so Elizabeth and I handed out candy. So many little girls in princess costumes asked Elizabeth if she was Ariel!! They were in just in awe of being that close to the Ariel they saw on stage in July. So cute!

Off to my daily meeting. I hope y'all have a great day!

I’m glad to hear that Nancy’s mom is improving!! It sounds like you had a fun time last night!!

Happy November!! Halloween was a success and my youngest has a full bag of candy. Just work for me today and my oldest won a conference award for soccer in Sportsmanship. We have a banquet tonight. So just work for me and I will be listening to some Christmas music today and the countdown to Thanksgiving begins! Hope you all have a great day!

Congratulations to your, Daughter!! Hope she has fun at the banquet!!

Good morning ~
Happy November!
I hope everyone had a Merry Halloween. We had about a dozen trick or treaters. We get less and less each year, I don’t understand why it so different now. When my kids were younger we had herds of kids walking around the neighborhood. Anyway, I don’t have too much going on. I have to run a couple of quick errands and then I’ll be working on the laundry. I plan on taking it easy after that, my husband has a cold and I feel like I’m getting sick now. I hope everyone is well and has a wonderful day!
xx

Hope you and your husband both feel better soon, HMG!!

 

[made582]

Happy November Thursday!

I guess we had a dozen or so trick-or-treaters. We were over-prepared with the chocolate ... we never can predict how many will show up. When we cut back on buying candy, more kids show up!

Who else can hardly believe it's November? [raises hand] Somebody pull Time over for speeding! (Wait, that actually happens this weekend: clocks get set back as Daylight Saving ends, giving us one extra hour.)

Time for it to get dark at 5pm again. Definitely need to get those Christmas lights up soon.

Good Thursday morning! I’m working the afternoon/evening shift today so we’re running errands early this morning and David is getting a haircut. I was also up at 6am making the poster for our employees to vote on their favourite Halloween costume.

I just got my first Christmas magazine, I’m so excited now! I’m most looking forward to a week’s vacation starting November 17th so I can REALLY get into everything Christmas and decorate. Stores here are still not fully set-up for Christmas so I’m waiting to do my usual day of going from place to place to look at Christmas merchandise.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Have fun running your errands this morning!!

 

[sugar142286]

No trick-or-treaters. I guess I’m too far off the beaten track. Well, I was hoping for some and now I got a big ole bowl full of chocolate to get rid of some way, some how.

Tomorrow, it’s November 1st, it is my sons birthday and also the Christmas music will start playing on Sirius radio. We got an email today at work, about the office Christmas party in December. This is all so exciting. The season is upon us; Thank you God!

We were talking tonight about Christmas gift ideas and Christmas as a whole, it’s going to be exciting having our first Christmas in our home. We are definitely hanging stockings on the mantle for the kitties.

Happy Birthday to him!

 

[sugar142286]

Good November first morning, Christmas friends!

As expected, we were swamped with trick-or-treaters last night. Nancy stayed in the hospital with her mother last night (she's improving), so Elizabeth and I handed out candy. So many little girls in princess costumes asked Elizabeth if she was Ariel!! They were in just in awe of being that close to the Ariel they saw on stage in July. So cute!

Off to my daily meeting. I hope y'all have a great day!

Prayers for your MIL.

 

[sugar142286]

Good morning ~
Happy November!
I hope everyone had a Merry Halloween. We had about a dozen trick or treaters. We get less and less each year, I don’t understand why it so different now. When my kids were younger we had herds of kids walking around the neighborhood. Anyway, I don’t have too much going on. I have to run a couple of quick errands and then I’ll be working on the laundry. I plan on taking it easy after that, my husband has a cold and I feel like I’m getting sick now. I hope everyone is well and has a wonderful day!
xx

Hope he feels better and that you do too!

 

[sugar142286]

Good morning and Happy November! I’m heading to bed - it was a crazy last couple of hours for my shift and again makes me thankful for everything I have. I’ll stop back in later, but just wanted to wish you all a great day!

 

[Bradmac]

Beautiful! Glad to hear things went so well, but I never doubted it for a minute!

Elizabeth looks beautiful!!! Glad it went great!
Have a good day!

Elizabeth looks beautiful!
Haha!! The bottle....hope Nancy is ok with it now!

Elizabeth looks beautiful and so does that porch!! You did a great job!!

Elizabeth looked beautiful. Great job on building the porch.

I don’t know how I missed this post yesterday, Elizabeth looks beautiful!!! Great job on the porch Brad!!!

Thanks, y'all! I know we're a bit biased, but we think she's kinda pretty, too.

 

[sugarmuffin25]

Happy November! One of my favorite days because it officially allows me to start decorating, wrapping presents, writing cards, listening to Christmas music! We had some rain last night so the usual hoards of trick-or-treaters we usually get were down a few numbers. I still have over a quarter of a cauldron of candy left. I will pick out the snickers, milky ways, and reeses for Christmas fudge and give the rest to my nieces and nephews. We had a three year old last night dressed completely as a Chucky Doll, the costume was perfect! But my favorite from last night was a boy and his two sisters; about 7 or 8 years old. The girls were dressed in matching skirts and shirts; the boy had a cap on his head to make him appear bald, and all were carrying silver suitcases. He was Howie Mandel and they were the models from Deal or no Deal. He had a little suit on; the costumes were so cute and creative! I hope everyone has a great day today as we welcome in November!!

 

[Holiday]

Good morning MMC! Merry Friday Eve. A wet/cold morning it is! We have weather advisories out for flooding across the roadways. Lots of water out there. I think the maple tree in our front yard went from green to yellow over night!
Just work at both places for me today. All the big wigs are here (at my old job) now - from the new place & the old, discussing the transaction. It's going to be a bumpy ride!!

We went out to eat Mexican with the family last night. Delicious as always! Then I watched Garfield Halloween!

Everyone, have a great day!!!