Hey everybody!
I hope that you guys had a nice and peace-filled Christmas! We had a great day with no kids. Bill and I went to the re-enactment of Washington crossing the Delaware River. It is a lot of fun, with Revolutionary war cannons & dress. Then we went to Chinese Buffet for dinner! YUM!
Our kids came the day after Christmas and will be here til January 3rd. The airports were bad and Eli ended up spending the night in Washington DC and his last plane that got delayed and made him stay there, was so late that by the time he realized he was spending the night at the airport all the restaurants were closed and his ear had popped on the plane and he was in pain all night and feeling pretty yucky by the time he got here and then to top it all off, United Airlines, did not get his luggage or his snow board here when he got here and they knocked on the door to deliver it at 1:20 am the next morning! UGH! I asked a nurse and found out that warm olive oil (the warmth of a baby bottle) droppered down the ear feels better and extra strength Tylenol Sinus headache is the other thing that works if you ever have a bad popped ear from traveling!
I am working on throwing out junk and trying to get my house organized for the new year resolution, since I gave up alcohol, cigarettes, and 4 pots of caffeine a day, in years past, the only super bad habit (that bothers me) I have any more, is having such a hard time getting things together and cleaned and organized! YIKES! It is pretty crazy! I did not realize how crazy the stuff we have sitting around here is, til I decided to try and find a place for everything or get rid of it...
So today I packed up my Christmas stuff early. This year is the first time in my life, I ever had an artificial tree and it was just a little 3 ft table topper. Since the kids were not going to be here and we are trying to do the green thing, we decided to not cut down a tree at least this year. I have to admit, I missed the smell of the tree but I did not miss stepping on needles and trying for the rest of the year to clean them up. Also since the little tree sat on my table, I did not have to work all that hard to keep the dogs away from it. That was nice! And we have some really tiny ornaments that always used to get lost on our big trees so it was nice to just use a handful of those and have less to clean up. Less is nice. Also we got some little paper houses that were always too fragile to put under our tree with the dogs and we could not do a village or his trains because of them, so we just did a tiny paper house village on our table and it was BEAUTIFUL and it just now occurred to me that I did not take one picture of it. Dangit!
Do you remember paper Christmas village houses? They are my favorites! They were called putz houses. I do not know why. I attached a picture of some, so you get an idea of what they look like but mine are really old and have little trees glued on them and snow on the roofs and glitter and windows that the Christmas lights shine thru. But I was collecting those ceramic houses until I got the papers ones and they just can not compare to the old sweet ones! I am going to ask my daughters in law if I can give them my little porcelein ones, because I am not going to use them anymore.
Well that is about all that is going on here. Just trying to get everything cleaned and organized! I need to get out there at the first of the year and job hunt so I just thought it would be good to get the house cleaned first!
See you all later. I am going to work out my resolution list for 2010!
I hope that you guys had a nice and peace-filled Christmas! We had a great day with no kids. Bill and I went to the re-enactment of Washington crossing the Delaware River. It is a lot of fun, with Revolutionary war cannons & dress. Then we went to Chinese Buffet for dinner! YUM!
Our kids came the day after Christmas and will be here til January 3rd. The airports were bad and Eli ended up spending the night in Washington DC and his last plane that got delayed and made him stay there, was so late that by the time he realized he was spending the night at the airport all the restaurants were closed and his ear had popped on the plane and he was in pain all night and feeling pretty yucky by the time he got here and then to top it all off, United Airlines, did not get his luggage or his snow board here when he got here and they knocked on the door to deliver it at 1:20 am the next morning! UGH! I asked a nurse and found out that warm olive oil (the warmth of a baby bottle) droppered down the ear feels better and extra strength Tylenol Sinus headache is the other thing that works if you ever have a bad popped ear from traveling!
I am working on throwing out junk and trying to get my house organized for the new year resolution, since I gave up alcohol, cigarettes, and 4 pots of caffeine a day, in years past, the only super bad habit (that bothers me) I have any more, is having such a hard time getting things together and cleaned and organized! YIKES! It is pretty crazy! I did not realize how crazy the stuff we have sitting around here is, til I decided to try and find a place for everything or get rid of it...
So today I packed up my Christmas stuff early. This year is the first time in my life, I ever had an artificial tree and it was just a little 3 ft table topper. Since the kids were not going to be here and we are trying to do the green thing, we decided to not cut down a tree at least this year. I have to admit, I missed the smell of the tree but I did not miss stepping on needles and trying for the rest of the year to clean them up. Also since the little tree sat on my table, I did not have to work all that hard to keep the dogs away from it. That was nice! And we have some really tiny ornaments that always used to get lost on our big trees so it was nice to just use a handful of those and have less to clean up. Less is nice. Also we got some little paper houses that were always too fragile to put under our tree with the dogs and we could not do a village or his trains because of them, so we just did a tiny paper house village on our table and it was BEAUTIFUL and it just now occurred to me that I did not take one picture of it. Dangit!
Do you remember paper Christmas village houses? They are my favorites! They were called putz houses. I do not know why. I attached a picture of some, so you get an idea of what they look like but mine are really old and have little trees glued on them and snow on the roofs and glitter and windows that the Christmas lights shine thru. But I was collecting those ceramic houses until I got the papers ones and they just can not compare to the old sweet ones! I am going to ask my daughters in law if I can give them my little porcelein ones, because I am not going to use them anymore.
Well that is about all that is going on here. Just trying to get everything cleaned and organized! I need to get out there at the first of the year and job hunt so I just thought it would be good to get the house cleaned first!
See you all later. I am going to work out my resolution list for 2010!
