Tree is up, and the kids have a new appreciation for how time consuming it can be to put on Christmas Lights. We got a fake tree last year and had many objections from the kids. I prefer real trees also, but it really was such a fire hazard next to the wood stove. Then our tree 2 years ago came in with spiders and that was the last straw). The fake tree is great and even though it has TONS of lights, we STILL put on more. Well the teens got that job this year and NOW they understand all about the joys of putting on tangled strings of lights. They have concluded our fake tree is lovely!
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Our brand new upright freezer arrived and we had it all loaded up. Then it stopped working. Lost everything in it. :-O. Thank goodness I hadn't transferred the beef to it yet. Repair guy came and said it needs a new motherboard. They can get it our here by mid-Jan. Really??
Very frustrated but it is just so Covid-era that I'm not even surprised.
Here's where I'm at:
House --
It's fine. Not as perfect as other years, but it's within 1 hour of pretty-darn-clean if the whole family pulls together. And I've gone through all the packages and cleared out the packaging debris so this year Santa's workshop (the attic) is pretty organized. All the Autumn renovations and projects are now at a stand-still and I'm not going to ramp them up again til after Christmas.. Some rooms are a disaster of paint cans but at least it is not the living room. Right? I'm kind of eager to get back into it in January.
Holiday --
* Finish last of the shopping. Mostly done. A couple more orders to place and some 4am shopping to do (while grocery stores are empty)
* Order the Roast.
* Start wrapping! I'm recruiting DH to help with this while he watches football on Sunday. Goal to be done by next Friday when DS gets out for Christmas Break.
* Pick cookie recipes to do with the teens. We are going to put the flours together but not bake til right before Christmas.
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