Our first grandbabies joined our family this month. We spent a long weekend getting acquainted. So soft and sweet.
After a week away, visiting brand new grandbabies out east, we are back home. Feels good. Now the Christmas decorating must start in earnest. Today will be a day of organizing what needs to be done…checking the cookie list, planning the week’s menu (easy meals this week!), making a grocery list, sorting the piles of boxes to see what can be done next. Trees need to be fluffed and lights adjusted or put on the trees. Ornaments can wait. Friends from church are coming to help later in the week.
I’ll be taking pictures as I go along. Hope to post some later.
12:30 pm – Have Daniel’s Cookie Bar Bites in the oven. I’ll cut them into 1″ squares when cooled and freeze them for dipping in chocolate a few days before the party.
Menu and grocery list are done for two weeks, laundry is done, and the kitchen is looking much better! Plugging along! 🙂
~~Rhonda
Peanut Butter Truffles and Sugar Cookie Crisps…the cookies of the day. I mixed the PB truffles this AM and rolled them while chatting with a friend who came by to see me. I’m in the process of dipping them in chocolate before storing them in the freezer. Just before the open house, they will be thawed, dipped in white candy coating and topped with multi-colored sprinkles. The Sugar Cookie Crisps are mixed and in the fridge for rolling into balls later.
Decorating for Christmas is on hold for a few days while I make the invitations for our annual Christmas open house the first Sunday in December. I’ll post more pics to flickr.com soon.
~~Rhonda
Thanks to help from my son Daniel, I am now a blogger. Why blog? Because I teach an online class via a Yahoo list about holiday preparation called “The Christmas Notebook.” I hope this site will serve as a resource and encouragement for my list members and a place where I can update them on how my own prep is coming along.
Because we host an annual open house the first Sunday of December each year, we begin decorating our home for Christmas the first of November. This year, we have twin grandbabies due the first week of November, so we began even earlier. Three trees are completed, and four trees stand ready to decorate. When we’re done, there should be 22 trees…at least one in every room.
I attended a Stampin’ Up party this AM, and when I got home, DH surprised me with the garland up around the bay in the library. Looks great and I’m inspired to get more done today, even though the day is sunny and lovely…should be out in the yard cleaning up the beds and putting things away for the winter. But no. It’s decorating for today. I’ll be posting pictures as we go along.
~~Rhonda