The girls and I had fun making our usual sugar smorgasbord for Christmas. We made fudge, peanut butter balls, potato candy, gingerbread men, sugar cookies, peanut butter kiss cookies and chocolate/cherry cookies.
It would have been nice to have shown you all of our hard work before Christmas, but it didn’t happen. So here are some photos of our handy work to get you in the mood for next year!
I bet you gained 5 pounds just looking at the photos, didn’t you?!
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting a great deal recently. (If you haven’t noticed, then let me keep my little fantasy alive in my mind will you?)
I have some really good reasons for my absence, I really do. First of all for the first time in over 8 years I’ve gone back to work full time, on THIRD shift. Yes, I go to work at 11pm and get off at 7am the next day. Except on those days where they schedule us 12 hours and I go in at 7pm…. or on those days where a meeting/training session is scheduled for 7am and I don’t get off until 8am or later. Oddly, when I took this job, one of my questions was “do you work a lot of overtime?”…..needless to say someone told me a big old fat fib. Basically, I’m averaging 48-56 hours a week…at night while the world slumbers.
I’m still homeschooling and doing all the other things I normally do (albeit, maybe not as well as before). On an average day I get 2-3 hours of sleep. Yesterday, after being up for 32 hours straight I slipped into a 12 hour coma…so I should be good to go for a few days.
In addition to that crazy schedule, the girls have been super busy with all things Nutcracker. The week of November 28 there were practices every night, several hours in length. The week of December 5 was stage week. Between the girls practices, and my working backstage we logged in a total of 22 hours of practice (yes in addition to the 56 hour work week). December 10 and 11 was show time. Two performances on the 10th, and 1 on the 11th. If you go to my homeschool blog Learning Curve you can see the girls in their costumes. Olivia was a mouse and a baker and Lindsey was the naughty Gingersnap.
This week was the end of Awana and the last Activity Day get together for this year as well. Yesterday we finished ringing the bell for the Salvation Army for the year, so I am commitment free until January!
This week, we’ll focus on making cookies, fudge, peanut butter balls and all sorts of goodies. We’re a bit late on getting started, but I’m sure you can understand why. We’ll be elfing people by the end of the week, I hope.
The goal is for me to work 8-12 months in order to replace the 2 vehicles we have. Both vehicles are over 190,000 miles, and all those little quirky things are starting to go wrong…you know, windows work some days and not others. The AC quit working long ago in the van, so on days when the windows don’t work and it’s hot you can’t drive without having a heat stroke.
So just try to be understanding for a bit. I haven’t forsaken my blog, or my readers. I’ve just forsaken sleep….sigh.
Jolanthe at No Ordinary Moments is hostessing the 2011 Christmas Ornament Show and Tell. I LOVE Christmas ornaments and have a very eclectic tree. So getting a chance to show off a few is always fun!
This first ornament doesn’t do well in photos…and I can’t figure out how to get my flash to turn off. This cute little porcelain mouse, is flocked where his fur is, so he feels like velvet. The color is washed out (and faded in real life), but he’s wearing a blue velveteen gown and cap, and holding a Bible. The little porcelain feet dangle inside and make a cute little tinkling noise. My brother Nelson bought this one for me when we were under the age of 10, so yeah, it’s old…ahem.
Next is a fancy schmancy ornament I bought for my first tree. It’s a blown glass basket with little glass roses in it. Not particularly “Christmassy” I guess, but I just love this one.
Last, but certainly not least is this hand carved nativity scene. It’s carved in real olive wood from the Holy Land. I picked this one up in a gift shop in an airport somewhere during my travels. Although the exact location escapes me at the moment.
What treasures does your tree hold this year?
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