WHEW! Things that got done this weekend:
- I baked 3 dozen of 5 different kinds of Christmas cookies (that’s 180 cookies!), made batch of homemade Hot Buttered Rum mix to freeze and enjoy throughout the winter, and made a big batch of homemade eggnog to enjoy throughout the holidays
- One dozen of each go to my mother (she gives me 5 dozen – 1 dozen each of 5 different kinds. That way – we each of 10 different kinds of Christmas cookies).
- Another dozen of each went to Atlanta with Chris for his employee Christmas party this week
- Got the Christmas tree Saturday night – - got it up Sunday morning. Will decorate tonight
- Got the Christmas lights hung outside the house – - along with 6 six foot white wire Christmas trees strung with white lights placed around the front of the house. Got all this done during a snow storm with at least a foot and a half of snow accumulated in the yard.
- Got the inside of the house all decorated (except for the tree)
- Got Chris all packed up and sent off to Atlanta for the week – - he should be boarding his plane as I write this
All of this along with dealing with a wayward teenage daughter with a million f’n TONS of attitude. I can’t even get into what we had to go through with her this weekend (in particular Friday evening) .. it’s just too…blech…to get into – - just suffice to say: if that kid sees the light of day by 2007. . . she’ll be lucky.
Now all I have to do is get out all my Christmas cards . . . then I can start working on my wedding invitations that I want to have out by the end of the year.
Not hectic. Not. Hectic. At. All.
Hmmm…photos of the decorations?? C’mon..it’s only one more thing to do..ha!
Mmmmmmmmmmm. I might have to do some Christmas cookies if I get a chance this week. Yesterday’s Chiarello had a chocolate hazelnut sandwich cookie that looked fantastic. He also did one that looked kinda like a filled biscotti that’s tempting…
don’t worry about your daughter, she can’t have possibly done more than mine!?!?!?! still have to love ‘em though… then they make you grandparents…. /:):((\:d//:):):d8-|/:):o@-)>-):-ss
Holy Smokes! Do you have enough energy to come help me??
Girls of any age are difficult. One of my 10 yr old twins told me the other day: I don’t exist in this family, I just don’t exist. All the time stomping her feet. This was done ‘cuz I did not wash the favorite jeans she wanted to wear.
Thanks for visiting last week.
Nancy – I’m seriously pooped out! Sorry lol @-)
Girls ARE difficult! And it just keeps getting worse — just when I think it CAN’T get more dramatic…more whiney and irrational – - my 14 year old takes it a step further.
I have a 16 year old boy and there is NONE of this dramatic, soap opera antics that goes on with him.
My mother warned me about having a girl . . . lol
Fred . . . she may have made me a grandparent if I hadn’t caught her.
‘Nuff said there! #:-s
Notice the restaint I’m using right now????????? :d
I will tolerate zero ‘like-mother-like-daughter” comments outta you, young man!
It’s almost like I can read your mind over there lol :-l
o:-)