Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all You never know when you might need an alibi!
Here in the USA we are just coming off of a four day weekend! It all started on Thursday with Thanksgiving and continued with “Black Friday” when insane people ventured out into the Malls to Christmas shop. Into Saturday, and Sunday, when insane people continue to shop and brave parking lot nightmares, and I stayed home. Here is what I did, lest anyone think I was sitting in my chair, with my feet up, eating bon-bons!
- I cooked a full Turkey Dinner on Thursday, complete with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, peas, pearl onions, gravy, and butternut squash. We even made a fresh apple pie that morning! It was great!
- I used my 1/4 cup measure, so I did not overeat at all! There were challenges in not eating more than 1/4 of a cup of stuffing (I make the best chestnut stuffing), but I was true to myself!
- I watched my first Christmas movie on Friday morning. “The Santa Claus”. It got me so into the season that I decided to put the electric candles in my windows. Unfortunately, the windows were dirty and I ended up cleaning them before the candles went in. BIG JOB! But it is done.
- Next I made a pot of turkey soup, which wasn’t too good the first night, but was wonderful on Sunday.
- Sunday I decided to decorate some more around the house for the holidays. I went into the attic and the only way to get to the decorations was to move the artificial Christmas tree. I decided to slide it down the steps and then the worst thing happened…the dachshunds started to stand around the bottom of the steps and I couldn’t slide the box for fear it would squash the dackels! I hollered for Hubby, while I lay on the attic floor, holding the ropes that go around the box, to keep it from dropping onto my precious babies!
- Several minutes later, when I started to feel like my shoulders might be pulled out of their sockets, Hubby arrived to take the box!
- We got that box and several other boxes too, and then I sat down and took it easy for a bit.
- However, the Christmas Letter was now finished, so I started to print those up.
- I also put out some of the table top decorations, and my all time favorite decorations, the Christmas tree my sister made for me, and the Christmas skating village that Mandy gave me!
- I stuffed envelopes, made dinner and now as I write, I am happily contented with all that I have gotten done!
So you can see, I was a busy gal over the weekend, but I got a lot done too. What did you do? Anything interesting?
Hi..just visiting from Hallie’s 🙂 You have absolutely adorable dogs and I love your blog. I’ll be back again soon! (I spent 3 years in Germany) 🙂
You are always so productive. I admire that.
I couldn´t help but smile, imagining you trying to hold on to the Christmas tree, while screaming for your hubby to come help. 🙂
I started a bit of decorating too, but still have lots to do.
Hi Maribeth! You also wrote a very emotionally honest comment on Hallie’s site. I was drawn to come here and tell you that your comment touched my heart and soul. I’m sorry for your loss .. all your losses and I pray everything turned out alright now. I have a son who fights cancer, successfully! so I know the feeling of almost losing a child time and again. We do what we have to do when we have to do it and make a decision to go forward or not. I’m glad you where able to go forward. When I look at your picture, I get a sense of peace – you have a beautiful face. HUGS from Minnesota.
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I did manage to get my card ordered but we haven’t begun writing a letter. Now that I blog and so many friends read that its hard to write a letter without being repetitive. We have to get clever and I don’t have it in me just yet. Oh, and we made turkey soup and it was divine!
Miss you so much!! Love YOU, Mel
Fortunately I didn’t have to cook any special things, but I also juggled around with the Christmas stuff ! Inside it’s all done except the tree, I don’t know if I put one up this year as we go to Amsterdam for Christmas, but the outside decoration I haven’t done yet. I needed to buy new lights to put in the hedge. When I wanted to do this, it started to snow ! I watched little Toby on video with Skype, Dario now calls me nearly every day to show him ! He slowly gets back to normal !
I had dinner with Dave & his family, then Saturday we took his daughter to Salem, MA and had fun walking around. She surprised me with a beautiful pair of sterling silver dragonfly earrings 🙂 And she told us the funniest thing…her son asked her, “what is black friday?” and she told him and he laughed and said he thought it was when only black people could shop!
We had Dereks nephews for the weekend and had lots of outings and family fun time…..I was going to finish my cards and get all our chrissy decorating done; the boys arrived at the last minute, so for the first time in many yrs, I will be into December before I get my chrissy cards off!