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Hey Cherries. Down to the home stretch. I have a short appointment this morning regarding my mom, then have to pick up a few things on my way home. Then this afternoon I’ll make a giant pot of sauce and meatballs and then make my lasagna trays so they will be all ready to cook on Wednesday. In the meantime I have to wrap a few gift cards and then get my dining room cleaned up.

Hope you all have a great day.

Good morning. Freezing cold here so I'm in my scrap room for now. I'm playing bridge this afternoon so I"ll have to venture out into the cold later. Not much else going on here.

Have a great day!

Good morning! It is bitter cold this morning so DH and I are staying inside. Our older daughter, her DH and Emma arrived yesterday afternoon. I made vegetarian chili in the crockpot for dinner which was a big hit. The three of them are currently at Wegmans picking up stuff for Christmas dinner, Stacie and Emma are cooking so other than me making an appetizer or two, I can relax. 

 

pawprints wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:49 am

Hey Cherries. Down to the home stretch. I have a short appointment this morning regarding my mom, then have to pick up a few things on my way home. Then this afternoon I’ll make a giant pot of sauce and meatballs and then make my lasagna trays so they will be all ready to cook on Wednesday. In the meantime I have to wrap a few gift cards and then get my dining room cleaned up.

Hope you all have a great day.

All that good sounds yummy!  
Have a wonderful day, Barb! 
 

trainmom wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:53 am

Good morning. Freezing cold here so I'm in my scrap room for now. I'm playing bridge this afternoon so I"ll have to venture out into the cold later. Not much else going on here.

Have a great day!

Have a great day, Louise! Hope you don't get too cold!

emmapaige wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 11:03 am

Good morning! It is bitter cold this morning so DH and I are staying inside. Our older daughter, her DH and Emma arrived yesterday afternoon. I made vegetarian chili in the crockpot for dinner which was a big hit. The three of them are currently at Wegmans picking up stuff for Christmas dinner, Stacie and Emma are cooking so other than me making an appetizer or two, I can relax. 

 

Nice of the girls to cook! I hope you have a relaxing day, Chris!  
 

Hey Cherries  
Work kicked my tail the last few days. Lol was SUPER BUSY! I like that it made my shifts fly by, but I'm a little sore in my back and wrists. 
I'm soooo late mailing out some cards! I STILL have to finish filling out cards for my coworkers. I plan on taking all the cards and dropping them off today..(Except for the ones I'm going to give my family that I'll be seeing this week!) 
JUST relaxing with my coffee now.
Have a wonderful day, Cherries!

I’ll be heading to the grocery store shortly, hoping I can get everything I need in one trip! Then home to start making Curtis’s grandmas sweet rolls. It’s kind of tradition too! Think I am pretty organized for the next 2 days. Christmas feast at Barrow’s.
#1 grandson came over yesterday to have a few minutes on his own. We took DD up to the airport and she flew home to Seattle.

It’s grey and dull, with above normal temps in the 40’s. If we don’t get any snow before the end of the year, they say it will be the third driest Dec in history.

Good morning cherries. Been just a tad busy. LOL. Picked Jackson up Thursday afternoon. The wounds looked sooo bad. He's taking his liquid antibiotic well. I mix it in his Temptations Purree every day and he laps that up. He's healing nicely though and spends alot of time with me at night. Like he should!

Saturday was the usual laundry, along with baking the Christmas Cookies. Yesterday, I picked Draven up so he could decorate the Christmas Cookies and wrap the gifts he bought for his family. He had a blast. Afterwards, DH and I took him home so DH could say hi to the boys. Jasper is healing wonderfully too after double eye surgery. He seems to be able to focus alot better.

Today, DH went to work and for me, it's cleaning/prep day. Started the dishwasher, went on my walk. Had my coffee and ran to the store for some of the fresh stuff we need for tomorrow's get together. Got 2 loads of doggie blankets done and I'm off to make homemade granola bars, along with dusting and vacuuming and mopping and and and....

Hope everyone gets everything done like they need to!

Took butter out to make cookies. Will have to check if it's soft enough yet.
Sometime between today and tomorrow I need to move stuff out of the way in my craft room. Even though they live like 10 minutes away, my daughter and her fiance stay over Christmas Eve   and need my floor. The room is a disaster, and still will be, but I have to at least make floor room.
Also we need to generally pick up the LR and kitchen. The downside of a small house is it's harder to hide stuff and just pretend it looks good.

Today is my busiest day at home.  Cleaning, finishing decorating the tree/mantle, printing pages for gifts, wrapping if I get to it (lol), and anything else I haven't done, yet!  Here is a layout I needed to finish for my designer for the 3-in-a-Row and Graphic Design challenges.

The holly's up, the house is all bright. 
The tree is ready, the candles alight. 
–Carl August Peter Cornelius (1824–74)

happy Christmas Eve Eve!   Lol. Today is very quiet here. Wintery sunshine and cold between storms.  I am going to clean thoroughly this morning. My aunt is 93 and sees very poorly but, lol, she won’t miss a speck of dust if I don’t clean, clean, clean. I’m 79 and she still refers to me as a “girl” with her cronies at the “home”. Lol

ill bake probably tomorrow.  I did pies for Thanksgiving so I’ve had a request for Apple brownies for Christmas. (btw no chocolate in those. Called brownies due to manner of baking them like cake in a pan and cut into squares to serve) .  Also a request for pie crust cinnamon rolls which are my son’s favorites.  

have a merry Monday. 

 

pawprints wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:49 am

Hey Cherries. Down to the home stretch. I have a short appointment this morning regarding my mom, then have to pick up a few things on my way home. Then this afternoon I’ll make a giant pot of sauce and meatballs and then make my lasagna trays so they will be all ready to cook on Wednesday. In the meantime I have to wrap a few gift cards and then get my dining room cleaned up.

Hope you all have a great day.

Ooh that all sounds delicious! We are having turkey, mashed potatoes, the green bean casserole and DD's BFF and her dad are coming for dinner. She is making a dulce de leche cake and he is making penne ala vodka with chicken. He's a chef at one of the hotels in Manhattan so we are really looking forward to this LOL! 

As for me I don't know if I am coming or going. I'm in good shape (everything is wrapped and DH does the cooking. I just make the casserole). We've already done our cookies and DD is making more cookies right now and will make bread for Christmas dinner/antipasto. I still have to make my cards for the family and a "placeholder" because we all want to see Stranger Things on Broadway but I don't want to get the tix now because a) so $$$ and it comes out in March or April and I don't know when they will want to go. But if I put it out there for Christmas, DD will hold us to it ROFL!!!

And workwise...omg. I have been having such a bad attitude - "I'll deal with that after Christmas." I have like 4 manuscripts due in January and just said yes to one that I should have said no to. But it's from a publisher I only hear from 1-2x a  year so I don't want to say no. So I have work out the wazzoo and just want to do Christmas things. Plus DD's birthday is the 26th and she still doesn't know what she wants to do. And after today DH will be off until the 30th, so it's hard to get any work done when everybody is home over the holidays. 

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!!!! We worked so hard yesterday that we both just had to stop yesterday! And then last night we lost power for about 4 hours! Thankfully we were ready and had ordered a chandelier with candles that we thought would work with it. But they were plastic candles and wouldn’t sit on the spots because it has those pokey things to hold the candles on. So we had to order real candles. They arrived Friday and Steve picked them up Saturday!!! So we were ready! But even though it was almost 50 it was getting quite chilly. Steve lets the wood stove fire go out every night. 

And a funny thing happened yesterday. Steve was downstairs stoking the fire. So I went into our closet to get the Christmas boxes. The doors are two bifolds and they closed on me! So I’m standing in the dark holding a large tote. I couldn’t turn either way or put the tire down because there wasn’t room! And I couldn’t see to figure out how to open even one of the doors!!! So I hollered at Steve while I’m trying to figure things out and he asks if I need help. I said yes but told him it wasn’t an emergency. Lolol! It took him a minute or two to get up to me but I was fine. From now on I have to remember to prop at least one of them open!!! Lolol! 

Today’s plan is to find missing Christmas things, get more clothes, get pots and pans and utensils, and get a couple more scrappy things to hold things on the table. Then I want to finish decorating the tree and a bit more. And put everything else away. We both exhausted ourselves yesterday and had to stop. That will probably happen again today.  But it’s all good! 

Hope you all have a great day!!!!

trainmom wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:53 am

Good morning. Freezing cold here so I'm in my scrap room for now. I'm playing bridge this afternoon so I"ll have to venture out into the cold later. Not much else going on here.

Have a great day!

It's so cold I'm freezing in the house except when I have a hot flash LOL! DD is making cookies so at least the kitchen is warm. Be careful out there in the cold!

emmapaige wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 11:03 am

Good morning! It is bitter cold this morning so DH and I are staying inside. Our older daughter, her DH and Emma arrived yesterday afternoon. I made vegetarian chili in the crockpot for dinner which was a big hit. The three of them are currently at Wegmans picking up stuff for Christmas dinner, Stacie and Emma are cooking so other than me making an appetizer or two, I can relax. 

 

Sounds lovely! Enjoy your visit with them. Chili sounds just the thing for this weather!

Art_Teacher wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:20 pm

Today is my busiest day at home.  Cleaning, finishing decorating the tree/mantle, printing pages for gifts, wrapping if I get to it (lol), and anything else I haven't done, yet!  Here is a layout I needed to finish for my designer for the 3-in-a-Row and Graphic Design challenges.

Beautiful!

scrappinmom99 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:29 pm

pawprints wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:49 am

Hey Cherries. Down to the home stretch. I have a short appointment this morning regarding my mom, then have to pick up a few things on my way home. Then this afternoon I’ll make a giant pot of sauce and meatballs and then make my lasagna trays so they will be all ready to cook on Wednesday. In the meantime I have to wrap a few gift cards and then get my dining room cleaned up.

Hope you all have a great day.

Ooh that all sounds delicious! We are having turkey, mashed potatoes, the green bean casserole and DD's BFF and her dad are coming for dinner. She is making a dulce de leche cake and he is making penne ala vodka with chicken. He's a chef at one of the hotels in Manhattan so we are really looking forward to this LOL! 

As for me I don't know if I am coming or going. I'm in good shape (everything is wrapped and DH does the cooking. I just make the casserole). We've already done our cookies and DD is making more cookies right now and will make bread for Christmas dinner/antipasto. I still have to make my cards for the family and a "placeholder" because we all want to see Stranger Things on Broadway but I don't want to get the tix now because a) so $$$ and it comes out in March or April and I don't know when they will want to go. But if I put it out there for Christmas, DD will hold us to it ROFL!!!

And workwise...omg. I have been having such a bad attitude - "I'll deal with that after Christmas." I have like 4 manuscripts due in January and just said yes to one that I should have said no to. But it's from a publisher I only hear from 1-2x a  year so I don't want to say no. So I have work out the wazzoo and just want to do Christmas things. Plus DD's birthday is the 26th and she still doesn't know what she wants to do. And after today DH will be off until the 30th, so it's hard to get any work done when everybody is home over the holidays.  

Breathe girl! Just breathe!!! You know I'm not a fan of having pooples in my house while I work, so I get it!

Good luck with getting everything done you'd like done.

blbabe1234 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:03 pm

Good morning cherries. Been just a tad busy. LOL. Picked Jackson up Thursday afternoon. The wounds looked sooo bad. He's taking his liquid antibiotic well. I mix it in his Temptations Purree every day and he laps that up. He's healing nicely though and spends alot of time with me at night. Like he should!

Saturday was the usual laundry, along with baking the Christmas Cookies. Yesterday, I picked Draven up so he could decorate the Christmas Cookies and wrap the gifts he bought for his family. He had a blast. Afterwards, DH and I took him home so DH could say hi to the boys. Jasper is healing wonderfully too after double eye surgery. He seems to be able to focus alot better.

Today, DH went to work and for me, it's cleaning/prep day. Started the dishwasher, went on my walk. Had my coffee and ran to the store for some of the fresh stuff we need for tomorrow's get together. Got 2 loads of doggie blankets done and I'm off to make homemade granola bars, along with dusting and vacuuming and mopping and and and....

Hope everyone gets everything done like they need to!

I'm so behind...what happened to poor Jackson!?   Sounds like a fun time with Draven and glad you guys got to see the other boys. And love to Jasper after his surgery! My lil sweet dude!!!

Art_Teacher wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:20 pm

Today is my busiest day at home.  Cleaning, finishing decorating the tree/mantle, printing pages for gifts, wrapping if I get to it (lol), and anything else I haven't done, yet!  Here is a layout I needed to finish for my designer for the 3-in-a-Row and Graphic Design challenges.

This layout is gorgeous Laura!