It's Christmas Time!

A little a week and a day ago our house looked like this:
















Man, did it feel like Christmas then. But then it all melted, as snow in Louisiana is wont to do and we are back in the 70's and such. And it seems like there's little to no chance of any snow next week in Tennessee. Alas.

The house is decorated to Christmas and it's clean. Well, relatively clean anyway. My plans this weekend are to get finish my Christmas shopping, or get very close to it. Get the house clean, make another batch of Christmas cookies and then takes some pictures of the clean house (and new dishwasher) to post on here.

Then just two more days until we are in the car and on our way North. There's still a good bit to do, but I'm feeling quite relaxed about it all.

Productive but not

There are so many things that did not get done over the holiday break. I blame myself mostly and my writing my novel. But that is over! Thank heavens. 53 thousands words and I'm good for awhile. I won't start the editing process until the new year.

Chris made huge strides in the office. And the dining room table is finally set up. We have a light in the closet under the stairs and I have moved the big wine rack to where I want it.

We went to a workshop on how to install a door, that wasn't actually happening, but we got shown how anyway. So we will be installing our new front door next Sunday.

But the big news is...Chris will be installing our new dishwasher on SATURDAY!! Whoo-hoo!! The one we were thinking of getting was on sale during Black Friday and his mom gave us the okay so we got it! It won't be delivered until Saturday and I'll be at work, but I'm confident Chris can handle it. My dad installed one a few years ago and Chris is way handier than my dad.

I tried to start on my outside Christmas decorations yesterday, but it was just too windy. Hopefully I can get to them on Friday which I have off.

The big party is two weeks away and there is LOTS to do, but I'm sure it can all get done. I'm really excited about it all.