The Holiday Season Has Began!

Tonight at 4pm when I got off work, the Holiday Season started!  I headed to the food store and got the last few things needed for dinner tomorrow.  Laura, Brandon, My Dad, Pete and I will be having a feast prepared by yours truly.  Actually Laura is helping out and cooking the turkey at her house.  I think I hate turkey and I know I hate raw turkey.  I hate raw anything, it makes me gag.  I started my cooking tonight.  I have cut up the cucumbers for cucumber salad, I made the butternut squash and mashed it, I made the stuffing, I made Lisanne’sGranmom’s famous mashed potatoes, I made up dips, Pete has made the baked beans from scratch (he even soaked the beans).  Tomorrow I have to make the mac & cheese and the green bean casserole and the green beans regular (Laura doesn’t like casseroles) in the morning.  We are having dinner early…12:00pm.  My dad and Brandon have to work at 3pm so we need to eat early.  Tomorrow night Pete’s friend Rick and his two kids are coming to stay with us for the weekend.  It should be a fun time.  Well except for the fact that Jonathan (10 years old)wants to go to the aquarium AGAIN.  He has been like 3 times in the last year.  I hate the aquarium.  I told Pete I am not going again.  I can’t do it.  It is crazy expensive and the fish are the same as they were in June!

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Christmas is in the Air

I am really excited about Christmas this year.  I can not wait to go get our tree.  I have lots of new ornaments that haven’t been used yet.  We are going to put our tree up in the dining room.  There is no room in our living room so the dining room it is.  It will be pretty and I am still decorating all over.  We are not sure if we are going to cut down our tree or buy it from this farm that sells already cut trees.  I love a real tree.  Fake trees are not the same.  I have a fake white tree that is super fabulous and so pretty.  I use white and purple lights on it and have tons of purple, silver and sparkly ornaments that I hang on it.  It is pretty in it’s own way.  I don’t think it is pretty as a fresh cut full tree.  I have never seen a fake tree look as good as a real one.  My family has bought a special ornament each year, my sister and I each have our own boxes full.  Each one is labeled with our names and the years.  I despise balls, you know the kind that come in a box of 12 in all different colors.  The scream “un-Originality”.  99% of the decorations I hang on my tree were each specifically selected.  The funny thing is that Pete’s family did the same thing so this year we have a box of his ornaments to hang with mine.  It is going to be great.  This is the first year our ornaments will be all together.  Three Christmases ago (2004) we put up a real tree that was decorated with Laura’s ornaments and mine too.  Then the next year (2005) I put my white tree up.  Last year (2006) it was the white tree again.  This year a real one (thank god), decorated as a mesh of Pete and Lisa.  We also have our 2007 Mickey-ear balls that we got in Disney World in February!  I will take lots of pictures of the tree.  I was hoping to get our tree this weekend, but since we have out of town guests that isn’t going to happen.  Next weekend we are going to New Jersey for the weekend, so who knows when we will get it up.