This has been a rest and recovery day for me. I finished the 6th load of dishes last night and got the kitchen cleaned up. Nice to delete my to-do list for the dinner off my notes. Thanksgiving 2023 is done!
I got most of my Christmas presents wrapped today. I have two more to go and then one more that will need wrapped after it gets delivered. Nice to have that little project completed. I still need to get three gift certificates and then my Christmas shopping is done.
I took a nap late morning. I had woken up at 4:30 and couldn’t go back to sleep. Finally found my second sleep between 11:00 and 12:30. I’ll take sleep whenever I can find it or it finds me.
We are to get 4 – 7 inches of snow tomorrow afternoon and into the evening. Luckily the wind isn’t to blow much so it might not drift too bad. When I went down to take care of the chickens today, the wind was blowing hard from the north. Man! It has gotten cold. It actually didn’t feel too bad if you were out of the wind but mid 30’s is too cold for me. The dogs are loving this weather.
I have to be at the old school tomorrow at 10:00 to help out. Not sure what I will be doing. I only work till 1:00 so I won’t have to be there long. Hopefully I will get home before the worst of the storm hits. I don’t like driving in icy or snowy roads. I don’t have anywhere I have to go Sunday so when I get home tomorrow I will tuck in and stay for a couple of days
If I remember I need to load up the car and take recycling and dump it in Cottonwood Falls. All my totes in the garage are full and I don’t have anymore space to put more recycling material. That stuff sure piles up quickly. Grateful the city offers a recycling trailer that is fairly easy to use.
I am going to finish my Christmas cards tonight and take them to the post office on my way to Cottonwood Falls tomorrow. It will be good to have that mess off my desk and in the mail. The only thing left on my to-do list for Christmas will be making treats and getting game prizes ready. Making treats is only part of Christmas I enjoy so looking forward to getting started on that. I have most of what I need to get some made next week. When I get groceries next week, I will get the rest of the stuff and get it all made.
Still haven’t felt back to my normal self today. Not sure what happened yesterday but I didn’t eat much and haven’t eaten much today. Hoping by tomorrow whatever this is, will be gone. I am better today than yesterday but have a ways to go yet.
After I get the treats made, I have a couple of people I send a box of goodies to. I will get those boxed up and shipped off early this year. In my mind, Christmas will be over December 9 when the kids and I get together. That will make for a short Christmas season for me. Maybe I will enjoy it more this year.
It is going to be cold in the house while they replace windows. I’m curious how they go about doing it and how much EFIS they have to cut to get the old windows out. Sure trusting I made the right decision on the windows. The amount of money they are costing is overwhelming. Grateful insurance is paying the bulk of it.
The dogs and chickens all enjoyed their Thanksgiving feast. The chickens got potato and veggie scraps and the dogs got turkey. Both had cleaned their plates by this afternoon. The dogs didn’t bother eating much dog food today. They must still be full from the turkey.
I might make some chili or a hamburger soup for tomorrow. Cold weather and snow makes me want soup to eat. It would be nice to come home tomorrow to the smell and taste of fresh soup in the crock pot.
I ordered and received a stand up charger for my smart watch. I kept knocking the other one off my nightstand and I was afraid I was going to break the watch. This is the charger that I had ordered a month ago and got the wrong thing. I asked for a refund on that one and ordered another one. They had it on a Back Friday sale this time and it was $10 off. If I get my money back for the wrong product, that will be a good deal.
Still basking a bit from the love and joy that was shared by all that came yesterday. The day couldn’t have gone better and was a lot of fun for me. I need to find an excuse to host a big group like that more often.
Feels good to have Christmas presents all but wrapped. I don’t like gift giving and wrapping things. I cheated and put most of the things in bags. I did fuss with tissue paper to a degree but barely. Just not my thing! Some people wrap the most beautiful packages – that is not me!
I need to get started doing the embroidery on the tea towels I stamped. That will be relaxing and fun for me. I needed to wait till the house was cleaned and Thanksgiving over before I would let myself start them. Once I get the Christmas cards done, I can bake Christmas treats and when I take a break I can do a tea towel or two. I don’t have a deadline to get them done so no rush to get to them. I just don’t like unfinished projects sitting around.
It is nice to have a clean house. Not sure how much of a mess the window installation will make. May have to clean again when they get done the end of next week. They will be in every room on the main floor replacing windows so the whole main floor may need cleaned again.
Grateful the presents are wrapped, grateful the cards are all but done, and grateful for all the love present in my house yesterday.