I am back today with some more of my December Daily. I have days 16-20 for you today. I hope you are enjoying my recap of our December here on my blog. This is helping me to remember what we did for my December Daily album so that I can get it scrapped before my goal date of the end of February. I even found the perfect template kit for it by Katie Pertiet over at Designer Digitals. You can find it here. I like that it has everything clustered in the middle of the page with a bit of white space around the edges, that is has 1-4 photos per page, and it has a nice sized journaling spot. I am not thrilled by the note tabs the journaling spots have, but I can always change that out if I want to. I had a hard time finding just the right template set to do an album in the way that I wanted to do it, but I was glad I finally found this one. Now I just need to save my allowance so I can pick it up. Ok so on with the show…
Day 16 – Today was an online shopping day. I was so excited to find a lot of great on-line deals this year. I am not a big fan of the crowded malls, so if I can get things on-line that saves me a lot of the stress and hassle of going out shopping and that makes me very happy. Not that I don’t enjoy shopping around this time of year, because I love to see the holiday displays and be able to browse around for different items, but I just really hate the crowds that can come with it. Though I must say that this year I was pretty lucky with the low amount of crowds almost every time I did go out. The only place that really had scary amounts of crowds was the new Wegman’s they put in near us. That was crazy crowded, more crowded than any grocery store should be, but since its the only one in New England I guess its to be expected.
These are some of the items I ended up getting:
Got this for Jason, because seriously what computer geek wouldn’t love it!
We sent this to Jason’s brother and his wife. We love Harry and David’s gift sets and this year we decided that instead of struggling to figure out what to get folks, that it would be easier to send them food gifts. We also sent out boxes of grapefruit and oranges to my siblings and my dad, because who doesn’t love the gift of Florida citrus. We also gifted ourselves with a box too.
We got this glowworm for our newest nephew Evan. He was 2 months old at Christmas and since our kids loved theirs as infants we figured he would like it too.
I also got some great deals at Land’s End too. I couldn’t get any pictures of the items, but Jason got some shiny new slippers and a new sleep t-shirt for less than $20. I was pretty happy with my shopping deals this year.
Day 17 - Today Jason helped me fix the rest of the Christmas lights on our little fake tree. Half of the string of lights on our pre-lit tree went out about 2 days after we plugged it in. We tried replacing all of the bulbs, but it didn’t work. We had to unwind and untie the whole strand of lights from the bottom half of the tree and then put on a new set of lights. It took a couple of hours but once we finished it looked pretty good. I was happy to get it fixed so we could decorate it and have a nice little tree down in our family room.
Day 18 – Today was another cookie making day. I made another batch of my Christmas sugar cookies and tried a couple of new recipes. I made coconut macaroons, peanut butter blossoms, snickerdoodles, and cherry walnut balls. I didn’t end up taking any photos of myself making cookies, but I did find a new favorite cookie. The cherry walnut balls were fantastic and so easy to make. I can tell I am going to be making a lot more of these. They will be great for Valentine’s day too.
Day 19 – Today was just an regular day for us. I didn’t do much in the way of Christmas stuff. Mostly I just did laundry and cleaned the house. Violet dressed up in her Princess finest and found a new place for her babies to hang out.
Day 20 – Today I finally hung up the Christmas stockings. I had to use some command hooks to get them to hang up, but hopefully next year I can get the mantle clips that I want to use for hanging our stockings. This year I am excited that we finally all have matching stockings. Logan, Jason, and I have stockings that were hand crocheted by my great aunt. By the time Jacob came along she had developed Alzheimer’s and was no longer able to crochet or do a lot of the things she used to be able to do. It was sad to see her not being able to do the things she loved doing anymore. I was also sad that we wouldn’t be able to get matching stockings for everyone. Thankfully though, last Christmas as I was searching Etsy to find stockings that at least would be matching for Jacob and Violet, I stumbled on someone who had the same pattern that my aunt used to make the stockings we already had. I was able to get 2 stockings made but they wouldn’t be completed until after last Christmas, so this year was the first Christmas that we would have a complete matching set.
Today we also enjoyed the first of the Florida oranges that we sent to ourselves for Christmas. We had them cut up into slices so we could all make orange smiles.
That is all I have time to post for now, but hopefully I can finish up our Christmas week tomorrow!
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