Since it's December Now...

It seems pretty sad when it's December and my most recent post is all about Halloween. This has been bothering me since December began and I've been trying to figure out what to post about. Nothing particularly exciting has been going on. Our dog hasn't had puppies, my kids don't really like to play in the snow, Thanksgiving was nice but not much to post about. I would have posted about making gingerbread houses at Grandma Bonnie's but I forgot my camera so it wouldn't have been as interesting(of course, I realized later that I could have taken pictures with my phone, Duh!). I'll get some good ones next year.

After Thanksgiving I really had to fight the urge to decorate for Christmas. It's always been a rule of mine to decorate on the first day of December. It was hard to wait this year. I had to remind myself that I have a lot of cute Thanksgiving decorations and they deserved the whole month to be on display. I did have to cheat slightly and set up the tree on November 30th because I had a dress rehearsal on December 1st and I needed Jaaromy to help me with the tree. Because of my concert that week and my Primary calling, it took me three days to decorate for Christmas. It was such a busy week and all I really wanted to do was decorate for Christmas. Why does everything have to happen all at once? So we are all decorated for Christmas now, and here's the proof:


It looks a lot like last year, I know. But this time I have the stockings up on the railing!

This is the corner I usually put all our instruments and so I had to find other places to put them...


My living room is crawling with instruments. I've got a violin, a trumpet, and a guitar back by my cello, and my bass with Nathaniel's cello up front. I don't usually have my bass at home but I'm playing in the Messiah with a small orchestra this coming weekend. I'm not sure why I said yes to that one, but I think it will be fun.

Well, now that I've taken care of the decorations, I'm free to enjoy the rest of the month. I think I'm going to buy all our Christmas presents online so we don't even have to leave the house unless we want to.

P.S. I'm currently wearing the most comfortable pants in the world and I couldn't be happier!