Outings
Geez, since I obviously didn't have time to blog, you might think we were just busy, busy, busy during November. Sadly, I can't remember much about the month at all. Maybe I'll just call it The Lost Month?
Looking at my calendar, I now see that we went to a friend's wedding in Tennessee, attended Grace's 4th birthday party (an artist party, where the girls painted a butterfly on a canvas and they LOVED it), and had our best friends over for a dinner/play date. We had Thanksgiving at church, which provided meals to over 100 people this year (!!!), and a second impromptu Thanksgiving that night with just the four of us, comprised largely of leftovers. I had four holidays from work--Veteran's Day and three days for Thanksgiving--and again, I really can't tell you much about those days at all. Obviously, we were very exciting in November.
My sister did come home for most of Thanksgiving week. We stayed up far too late, shopped, ate, watched movies, and crossed several items off the Holiday Bucket List. It was a great visit, and left me looking forward to more time together over Christmas.
Books read: 2
The Leftovers-- It felt like it took me forever to read this book, and judging by the fact that I only read two during the entire month, it did! I liked it okay, but it took me about half the (considerably sized) book to start caring about the characters at all. Still, kind of a nice ending.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-- I'm picking back up with my re-read of Harry Potter. It's about this point in the story that I start to really be amazed at the huge amount of plot planning that went into these books. I've heard it said that J.K. Rowling knew the end of the story from the time she created it, and I can definitely see how that would be true. She had to have had SO MANY details pre-planned for the series to flow as well as it does. Just amazing...
Crafts/Projects
I went on a clean out & donate spree this month. I cleaned out the big hall closet, which contains all of my craft supplies, wrapping supplies, spare gift items, and lots of other random junk. A couple of hours and three donation bags later, it was neat and organized, with lots of space to spare.
My cousin did a pick up for Salvation Army and we filled the bed of her truck with items to donate. I even made a quick decision to toss on the armchair we were just moving out of the living room to make room for the Christmas tree. It needed to go...which means I get to look for a new one in January! I am feeling very inspired by all this purging, and I'm ready to tackle other areas of the house as soon as I can make some time.
We put Christmas lights up outside for the first time ever. The experience was, as you might imagine, not altogether enjoyable, but I think we have most of the kinks worked out now. : )
Now we are just looking forward to a December full of holiday goodness!
(And more blogging from me, of course!)
love these posts!
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