Craziness

So this week has been crazy. Joey's been in rare form. Nice one minute and a raving terror the next. We've officially decided to get rid of our kitty, Walfredo. She's a lovely kitty and I'm sure she'd be better behaved if she weren't being tortured during all waking hours. As soon as Joey's asleep, the kitty is all snuggles and cuddles. So if you're in the area and you're looking for a kitty, look no further.

We finally put up and decorated our christmas tree. It's absolute insanity. Joey is fascinated with it which was adorable until she started plugging and unplugging it and shoving it and breaking ornaments. And of course the kitty tried to climb it and keeps stealing the low ornaments (she carries them off and hides 'her' toys under our bed). I'm convinced she thinks she's a dog.

We made an advent wreath this year at with some of the other folks at our church. It was great fun. Joey got to glitter the pine cones and I got to be crafty and had fun making bows. It's so nice to have. And, the base, candle holders, pine cones candles and bows are re-usable so I can use them again next year as long I get more pine garland. It smells so nice too. It works out really nicely for us too since real trees are so expensive every year and the artificial ones are getting more and more realistic every year. We have a nice one but I think in a couple of years we'll be able to get one that really looks real. But with pets and children, I just think that real ones are a little unrealistic sometimes. But it is nice to have at least a little bit of something real and pine around.

I'm currently trying to figure out if canning broccoli would be a total bad idea. I never see broccoli canned in the stores but I have a bunch of broccoli that I bought in bulk and I am running out of ways to utilize it before it goes bad. I think I'm going to try and can it either today or tomorrow. I already froze 1/3 of the 2 lbs that I bought. And I cooked up or used another 1/3 of it but I still have 1/3 left to use up.

I'm still working on getting around to making up Christmas cards. I've found a few different different places with nice cards but I took some pictures that I liked and then they turned out all blurry when I tried to fix them up a bit. Maybe I'll just take some of our pictures from the past year and turn them black and white and go that route. Ugh, so undecided. Maybe I'm just over thinking it.

I did finally figure out something that I might like to go back to school for. I've been working on our church's quarterly newsletter at work and I've really been enjoying doing the layout and editing work. I'm now thinking that maybe I'd like to do either graphic design or english. I'm not sure what I'll decide on, but I probably won't actually decide until I find a school out in CO that I like and such of course. I love both writing and design so it's kinda a tough choice.

Well, I think that's all that's been going on with me for a past few days. So, tootles.

Post-T-Day Wrap up

So, Danny and I had a very full few days. It was good for the most part, but very full and now I feel like I need a vacation all over again. We spent Thanksgiving at my husband's aunt's house with his grandparents and all his cousins. It was golly fun. Joey had such a blast and at one point even stood up on a chair and shouted "Everybody, Everybody!" to try and get everyone's attention so that they'd sing 'row, row, row your boat' with her.

We had most of Friday with no obligations. I made room in the Living Room for our tree but haven't yet gotten the tree out of the closet and put it up, maybe today, we'll see. Danny had band practice that night and we all went up so that Joey and Danny's band mate's son could hang and play and they had a grand ole time and made a big ole mess.

Then Joey spent the night puking. :-( We still don't know what caused that one, she puked four times through the night and then seemed fine all the next day. She wouldn't eat anything but crackers and like two bites of chocolate cream pie all day. But she was so looking forward to the family reunion and playing with Maggie and Grammy that I just couldn't break her heart by not going. She's been telling us for weeks that she's going to a dance party with Maggie on Saturday that as long as she wasn't puking, I couldn't think of keeping us all home. Then we stopped at the grocery store on our way home and Danny called his folks to see how their day went and they reminded us about our church's advent wreath making event and Joey wanted to see her LaLa so we headed to do that too. It was a good fun time and Joey had a blast putting glitter on the pine cones.

I'm roasting a 19lb turkey today because it was 50% off at the store yesterday. I just had to get it. I whipped up some quick stuffing with what I had around the house (I forgot to grab some at the store with the Turkey). Danny and I are still contemplating putting up our tree today.

I finally finished my latest bag that I've been knitting. I'll post pics after I get it felted down, hopefully that will give Danny and I time to find our camera. I know it's around here somewhere, but with the Joey and the cat it's hard to know where thing end up sometimes. But we're having a festive type of day over here. Danny's listening to Handel's Messiah and Joey's singing Hallelujah along with all of the songs.