kadyellebee

I’m working on decorating my house. Not only for Christmas, but just getting things pretty in the house in general because my In-laws are coming for E’s birthday in a few weekends. So of course, I put a lot of expectations on myself, wanting pictures on the walls and everything in its place.

I have two walls now with pictures on them, bathroom mats and towels that match in several places, and our house is really looking nice. We even have a blow-up matress for the guest bedroom, so that legitmately makes it a guest bedroom and not just the "extra box storage room with the extra couch and TV ."

Christmas decorations are fun in a new house; I got in a rut of doing the same thing for several years in a row in the last place, so its fun to start some new traditions. We got new Christmas tree ornaments and lights (pearlized button ones from Target that were pretty) and it took no less than 4 tries to get the lights on the tree.

1. First, I started putting them on and ran out of lights before I ran out of tree.
2. Then I put them up and they looked too sparse. We decided to wait and get a 3rd strand
3. Got the first 2 strands back on and looking pretty and plugged in the new third strand and only half of them worked, dispite E’s playing to try and get the little metal leads in the first light spot to not be crooked as they were out of the box.
4. One more try, with only 2 strands, to try and make it not look sparce and not make E have to go and get another set. not bad.

Of course, when I do that, my hands and arms get all poked up - can you imagine how it works after 4 times?

Next big job is to figure out how to get the lights around the door outside to work. We have a plugin outside for the first time, and so I want them around the door, but it will require drilling some holes in the door frame to mount some little hookies to attach them with!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

My to do list is actually getting crossed off from the busy weekend of work, and that’s really a relief. And in between that, we even started our Christmas shopping, so I have a good idea for almost everyone on the list, and some more ordering to do - I think that most everything else will be shipped, but I want it all in process by the 15th. Woo!

I don’t think I’m gonna get to my pretty faux treatement I want to do on the small wall downstairs. I was hoping, but now with one more trip planned between now and then, I think I’ll just concentrate on the things I know are important. One ugly wall left over from the last people isn’t enough to stress about. I *do* have the paint now, though, so it won’t be left too long after Christmas!