OMG Christmas in less then 3 months

I feel so far behind, normally we would have our Christmas list all ready and about 3/4's picked up. We have barely started getting any gifts yet, our list hasn't even been scribbled out let alone a clear plan. I am just wondering if everyone else is in this situation or not, I would love to hear about some of your plans on how to get ready and organized as we seem to be all out this year.

Packing up

I have been working on packing up my Christmas decorations for days, it sure takes me longer to pack things up than it does to put them out. I was pleasantly surprised at one thing, the dog never got into any of our decorations. I expected her to try and eat everything but really other than chewing up a Christmas blanket that my Mom gave to her anyway she didn't destroy anything. Hubby is off for the weekend so I think I will send him outside to take down the outside decorations.

I've been away too long

I'm sorry to everyone on being away for so long, with work and Christmas it seems as though I have been away for months. With the new year now upon us I am trying to get everything back on track here on the homestead. I have been working the last couple of days on getting the Christmas decorations put away and cleaning out the junk and re-organizing the kids space. Somedays it feels as though I'm not making any headway but I know I am. It can be frustrating as I'm used to having more time than I do with work taking up a lot of time these days it has been more challangeing to get everything I want to done.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

Well not really, another rainy weekend is upon us, we have been trying to finish our outside Christmas lights and decorations but every chance we get to work on it we have been greeted with rain. Now don't get me wrong it's great for the oil bill to have the temperatures that are going with the rain but usually by this time of year we have some snow on the ground and everything is frozen up. I will be very excited when I get the chance to finish up the decorating and can turn my lights on every night.

All kinds of shopping

We made all kinds of Christmas shopping progress today, yes I know it seems so early to talk about this. We picked up a bunch of our lay aways today and now are checking all sorts of items off our list. It will be an exciting couple of months trying to finish up all our shopping in time for the big day.

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Tomorrow is the first day of fall and only 3 days after that will officially be 3 months to Christmas. I think the next 3 months will go by extremely fast especially now that I am going back to work in only a week. I think this year will be an exciting Christmas, we are working on a couple of surprises for the kids which I hope we can pull off, if we do they will be extremely surprised.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

This will probably be my last post until after Christmas with all the work that needs to be done around the house to get ready for the big day!

I want to wish all my blogging friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!

Enjoy this time with your family and friends :0)

BREAKING CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS..

This is going to be a difficult Christmas for me this year. With my husbands job transfer this past summer it moved us 5 hours away from our family and with him working in retail and managing a store it doesn't allow him much time off to travel until after boxing day. So this year will be the first year that I break all the family traditions in 30 years and will not be home for Christmas at all until the 27th or 28th. We will be there until after the New Year to visit with family and friends but it won't be that same. This is something I knew I would have to face at some point but it's still hard. I have been busy thinking up new family traditions to pass along to our kids and hopefully someday we will be back home with our family. Dreams to come true, we just have to believe it will happen. Merry Christmas everyone!

13 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS !

Yes that's right...less than 2 weeks until Christmas and I have brought in Santa's little helpers to help celebrate. Get into the Christmas spirit with these four elves by clicking HERE to share in the fun!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

***20 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS!

WINDOW DECORATING...

Window painting is something I have done for many years in the windows of my homes but for the last two years I haven't been able to with having grids in our windows at the new mini home. But as you can see this year with our new home in Cape Breton I have a couple of windows that I was able to paint for Christmas. The kids love them! They are beautiful at night with the window lit up! Happy Holidays :0)

CHRISTMAS IS COMING....

It is up with things this year? I guess I can blame things on moving to another province. I am usually done my shopping AND wrapping by now but I have hardly done any shopping yet and I am starting to run out of time. Next week will be a big shopping week for us and hopefully I will be able to start some wrapping. The decorating is almost finished and we still don't have any snow...I wonder what the winters are like here in Cape Breton? Merry Christmas :0)