Christmas is getting closer

This Christmas is not like past ones at all. We have not been in the mood to decorate or even get a tree. No, we are not Scrooges or anything of that sort. Although, it could easily be taken that way if you walked in to our home.

What is really different about this Christmas is that we are driving to Colorado for the last two weeks of the year. Knowing that we won't be here has just taken the desire to decorate and be festive and thrown it in the trash receptacle. We are bubbling over with excitement about going to CO!

I refuse to put up ANY Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving even though I think the stores are starting in July now or some crap like that. After Thanksgiving this year We decided not to get a tree since we wouldn't be here on Christmas morning to enjoy it and thus it's sole purpose would never be fulfilled. That would be a sad end to the life of a Christmas Tree, don't you think? So, no tree. We did, however, put up a few little things around the house but it just doesn't feel like Christmas unless you have moved half of the furniture around to fit the damn tree!

Now, I am stressing trying to make sure that we have the gifts for our parents finished in time! We bought a couple of really old windows that had the paint falling off and were just plain nasty. One has three panes and the other, just two. I sanded and cleaned the crap out of the three pane...or should I say three pain? At any rate, Beck and I then painted it and did the "crackle" technique on it so the top coat of paint is cracked all over and you can see the bottom color. I just finished painting it this very morning. Our plan is to go to Michael's and get some more glass cut to the same size as the existing stuff then put pictures of Ashlee and some dried flowers between the glass. Our parents will then have a three (or two) picture frame that they can hang on the wall! Unique, don't you think? I will have to get to work on sanding and painting the other one since I only have a week to go. WOW!

I will take pictures of how they turn out and post them so you can see what the hell I am talking about.


TODAY IN HISTORY: Dec 14
-1799 George Washington dies at Mount Vernon
-1947 Stock Car Racing Organized
-2003 Saddam Hussein is captured in Iraq


ST signing off.